resizepart - Man Page

resizepart device partition length

resizepart tells the Linux kernel about the new size of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl.

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

device

The disk device.

partition

The partition number.

length

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

-h,  --help

Display help text and exit.

-V,  --version

Display version and exit.

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

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