partprobe - Man Page

• Notify the operating system kernel of partition table changes: sudo partprobe
• Notify the kernel of partition table changes and show a summary of devices and their partitions: sudo partprobe --summary
• Show a summary of devices and their partitions but don't notify the kernel: sudo partprobe --summary --dry-run

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partprobe [-d] [-s] [devices...]

This manual page documents briefly the partprobe command.

partprobe is a program that informs the operating system kernel of partition table changes.

This program uses short UNIX style options.

-d,  --dry-run

Don't update the kernel.

-s,  --summary

Show a summary of devices and their partitions.

-h,  --help

Show summary of options.

-v,  --version

Show version of program.

Report bugs to <bug-parted@gnu.org>

parted(8).

This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

addpart(8), cfdisk(8), delpart(8), partx(8), resizepart(8), sfdisk(8).