partprobe - Man Page

inform the OS of partition table changes

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

partprobe [-d] [-s] [devices...]

Description

This manual page documents briefly the partprobe command.

partprobe is a program that informs the operating system kernel of partition table changes.

Options

This program uses short UNIX style options.

-d,  --dry-run

Don't update the kernel.

-s,  --summary

Show a summary of devices and their partitions.

-h,  --help

Show summary of options.

-v,  --version

Show version of program.

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to <bug-parted@gnu.org>

See Also

parted(8).

Author

This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

Referenced By

addpart(8), cfdisk(8), delpart(8), partx(8), resizepart(8), sfdisk(8).

March 18, 2002 GNU Parted Manual