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6 addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition
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9 addpart device partition start length
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12 addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified
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16 This command doesn’t manipulate partitions on a block device.
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20 The disk device.
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23 The partition number.
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26 The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
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38 delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)
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45 The addpart command is part of the util-linux package which can be
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