addpart - Man Page
tell the kernel about the existence of a partition
Examples (TL;DR)
- Tell the kernel about the existence of the specified partition:
addpart device partition start length
Synopsis
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 doesn’t 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
Print version and exit.
See Also
Reporting Bugs
For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.
Availability
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive.
Referenced By
delpart(8), partx(8), resizepart(8).
2024-04-24 util-linux 2.40.2 System Administration