| .\" delpart.8 -- man page for delpart |
| .\" 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 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration" |
| .SH NAME |
| delpart \- tell the kernel to forget about a partition |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B delpart |
| .I device partition |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B delpart |
| asks the Linux kernel to forget about the specified \fIpartition\fR |
| (a number) on the specified \fIdevice\fR. |
| The command is a simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl. |
| |
| This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device. |
| |
| .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/. |