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ADDPART
Section: System Administration (8)Updated: 202-1-15
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NAME
addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partitionSYNOPSIS
addpart device partition start length
DESCRIPTION
addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl.
This command doesncqt manipulate partitions on a block device.
PARAMETERS
device
- The disk device.
partition
- The partition number.
start
- The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
length
- The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
-h, --help
- Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
- Display version and exit.
SEE ALSO
delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)
REPORTING BUGS
For bug reports, use the https://github.com/uti-linux/uti-linux/issues <L>issue tracker
AVAILABILITY
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/uti-linux/ <L>Linux Kernel Archive