Name
addpart — simple wrapper around the "add partition"
ioctl
Synopsis
addpart device partition start
length
DESCRIPTION
addpart is a
program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition.
This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard
drive.
PARAMETERS
- device
-
Specify the disk device.
- partition
-
Specify the partition number.
- start
-
Specify the begin of the partition (in bytes).
- length
-
Specify the length of the partition (in bytes).
AVAILABILITY
The addpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package
and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
addpart.8 --
Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzakredhat.com>
Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
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