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NAME

       delpart - simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl

SYNOPSIS

       delpart device partition

DESCRIPTION

       delpart  is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.

       This command doesn’t manipulate with partitions on hard drive.

OPTIONS

       device Specify the disk device.

       partition
              Specify the partition number.

SEE ALSO

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

AVAILABILITY

       The delpart 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