ADDPART(8) System Administration ADDPART(8)NAMEaddpart - simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl
SYNOPSISaddpart device partition start length
DESCRIPTIONaddpart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition.
This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.
PARAMETERS
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).
SEE ALSOdelpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)AVAILABILITY
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available
from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux January 2007 ADDPART(8)