NAME¶
addpart - a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl
SYNOPSIS¶
addpart device partition start length
DESCRIPTION¶
addpart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of a new partition.
This command doesn't manipulate partitions on the hard drive.
PARAMETERS¶
- device
- Specify the disk device.
- partition
- Specify the partition number.
- start
- Specify the beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
- length
- Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
SEE ALSO¶
delpart(8),
fdisk(8),
parted(8),
partprobe(8),
partx(8)
AVAILABILITY¶
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
