1ADDPART(8)                  System Manager's Manual                 ADDPART(8)
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NAME

6       addpart - simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl
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SYNOPSIS

9       addpart device partition start length
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DESCRIPTION

12       addpart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition.
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14       This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive.
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PARAMETERS

18       device Specify the disk device.
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23       start  Specify the begin of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
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25       length Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
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SEE ALSO

29       delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)
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AVAILABILITY

32       The  addpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is avail‐
33       able from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
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