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