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6 partx - telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk par‐
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10 partx [-a|-d|-l] [--type TYPE] [--nr M-N] [partition] disk
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13 Given a block device ( disk ) and a partition table type , try to parse
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17 This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions is not a change
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23 -a add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions
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27 -l list partitions. Note that the all numbers are in 512-byte sec‐
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39 addpart(8), delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8)
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