| .\" resizepart.8 -- man page for resizepart |
| .\" Copyright 2012 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> |
| .\" Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc. |
| .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License |
| .TH RESIZEPART 8 "January 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration" |
| .SH NAME |
| resizepart \- tell the kernel about the new size of a partition |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B resizepart |
| .I device partition length |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B resizepart |
| tells the Linux kernel about the new size of the specified partition. |
| The command is a simple wrapper around the "resize 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 length |
| The new length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). |
| |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR addpart (8), |
| .BR delpart (8), |
| .BR fdisk (8), |
| .BR parted (8), |
| .BR partprobe (8), |
| .BR partx (8) |
| .SH AVAILABILITY |
| The resizepart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from |
| ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |
