SYNOPSIS

addpart device partition start length

DESCRIPTION

addpart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of a new partition.

This command doesn't manipulate partitions on the hard drive.

PARAMETERS

device

Specify the disk device.

partition

Specify the partition number.

start

Specify the beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

length

Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

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AVAILABILITY

The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.