| .\" partx.8 -- |
| .\" Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> |
| .\" Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc. |
| .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License |
| .TH PARTX 8 "11 Jan 2007" |
| .SH NAME |
| partx \- |
| telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions. |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B partx [-a|-d|-l] [--type TYPE] [--nr M-N] [partition] disk |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| Given a block device ( |
| .B disk |
| ) and a partition table |
| .B type |
| , try to parse the partition table, and list the |
| contents. Optionally add or remove partitions. |
| |
| This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions |
| is not a change of the disk, but just telling the kernel |
| about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions. |
| |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .B \-a |
| add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions |
| .TP |
| .B \-d |
| delete specified or all partitions |
| .TP |
| .B \-l |
| list partitions |
| .TP |
| .BI --type " TYPE" |
| Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris, unixware or gpt. |
| .TP |
| .BI --nr " M-N" |
| Specify the range of partitions (e.g --nr 2-4). |
| |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR addpart (8), |
| .BR delpart (8), |
| .BR fdisk (8), |
| .BR parted (8), |
| .BR partprobe (8) |
| |
| .SH AVAILABILITY |
| The partx command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from |
| ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. |
