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ADDPART(8) System Administration ADDPART(8)

addpart - simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl

addpart device partition start length

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

This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.

device
Specify the disk device.
partition
Specify the partition number.
start
Specify the begin of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
length
Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)

The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
January 2007 util-linux
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