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DELPART

Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: 202-1-15
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NAME

delpart - tell the kernel to forget about a partition  

SYNOPSIS

delpart device partition  

DESCRIPTION

delpart asks the Linux kernel to forget about the specified partition (a number) on the specified device. The command is a simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl.

This command doesncqt manipulate partitions on a block device.  

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Display help text and exit.

-V, --version

Display version and exit.
 

SEE ALSO

addpart(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 delpart 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


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
REPORTING BUGS
AVAILABILITY