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NAME
addpart - simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctlSYNOPSIS
addpart device partition start lengthDESCRIPTION
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 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-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
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