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NAME

       addpart - simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl

SYNOPSIS

       addpart device partition start length

DESCRIPTION

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

       This command doesn’t manipulate with 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 ALSO

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

AVAILABILITY

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

                                  11 Jan 2007