delpart - Man Page

• Tell the kernel to forget about the first partition of /dev/sda: sudo delpart /dev/sda 1

tldr.sh

delpart device partition

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 doesn’t manipulate partitions on a block device.

-h,  --help

Display help text and exit.

-V,  --version

Display version and exit.

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

For bug reports, use the issue tracker.

The delpart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive.

addpart(8), partx(8), resizepart(8).