addpart(8)

NAME

   addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

SYNOPSIS

   addpart device partition start length

DESCRIPTION

   addpart  tells  the  Linux  kernel about the existence of the specified
   partition.  The command is a simple wrapper around the "add  partition"
   ioctl.

   This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.

PARAMETERS

   device The disk device.

   partition
          The partition number.

   start  The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

   length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

SEE ALSO

   delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)

AVAILABILITY

   The  addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available
   from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

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