| .\" addpart.8 -- man page for addpart |
| .\" Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> |
| .\" Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc. |
| .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License |
| .TH ADDPART 8 "January 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration" |
| .SH NAME |
| addpart \- tell the kernel about the existence of a partition |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B addpart |
| .I device partition start length |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B addpart |
| tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. |
| The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl. |
| |
| This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device. |
| |
| .SH PARAMETERS |
| .TP |
| .I device |
| The disk device. |
| .TP |
| .I partition |
| The partition number. |
| .TP |
| .I start |
| The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). |
| .TP |
| .I length |
| The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). |
| |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR delpart (8), |
| .BR fdisk (8), |
| .BR parted (8), |
| .BR partprobe (8), |
| .BR partx (8) |
| .SH AVAILABILITY |
| The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from |
| ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |
