ADDPART(8) | System Administration | 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
partition
start
length
-h, --help
-V, --version
SEE ALSO¶
REPORTING BUGS¶
For bug reports, use the issue tracker at <https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.
AVAILABILITY¶
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
2022-05-11 | util-linux 2.38.1 |