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addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

Availability

       The addpart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
       <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

util-linux 2.37.2                                  2021-06-02                                         ADDPART(8)

Description

addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple
       wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl.

       This command doesn’t manipulate partitions on a block device.

Name

       addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

Parameters

device
           The disk device.

       partition
           The partition number.

       start
           The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

       length
           The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

Reporting Bugs

       For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues.

See Also

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

Synopsis

addpartdevicepartitionstartlength

See Also