delpart - Man Page

tell the kernel to forget about a partition

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

delpart device partition

Description

delpart asks the Linux kernel to forget about the specified partition (a number) on the specified device. The command is a simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl.

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

Options

-h,  --help

Display help text and exit.

-V,  --version

Print version and exit.

See Also

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

Reporting Bugs

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

Availability

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

Referenced By

addpart(8), partx(8), resizepart(8).

2024-04-24 util-linux 2.40.2 System Administration