1RESIZEPART(8)                System Administration               RESIZEPART(8)
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NAME

6       resizepart - tell the kernel about the new size of a partition
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SYNOPSIS

9       resizepart device partition length
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DESCRIPTION

12       resizepart  tells  the Linux kernel about the new size of the specified
13       partition.  The command is a simple wrapper around the  "resize  parti‐
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16       This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
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PARAMETERS

20       device The disk device.
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22       partition
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25       length The new length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
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SEE ALSO

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

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