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