.\" delpart.8 --
.\" Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
.\" Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.TH DELPART 8 "January 2007" "util-linux" "System Administration"
.SH NAME
delpart \-
simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B delpart
.I device partition
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B delpart
is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.

This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a hard drive.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.I device
Specify the disk device.
.TP
.I partition
Specify the partition number.

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR addpart (8),
.BR fdisk (8),
.BR parted (8),
.BR partprobe (8),
.BR partx (8)
.SH AVAILABILITY
The delpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.