addpart - Man Page

• Tell the kernel about the existence of the specified partition: addpart device partition start length

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addpart device partition start length

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.

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).

-h,  --help

Display help text and exit.

-V,  --version

Display version and exit.

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

For bug reports, use the issue tracker.

The addpart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive.

delpart(8), partx(8), resizepart(8).