| .\" addpart.8 -- |
| .\" Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> |
| .\" Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc. |
| .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License |
| .TH ADDPART 8 "11 Jan 2007" |
| .SH NAME |
| addpart \- |
| simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B addpart |
| .I device partition start length |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B addpart |
| is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition. |
| |
| This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive. |
| |
| .SH PARAMETERS |
| .TP |
| .I device |
| Specify the disk device. |
| .TP |
| .I partition |
| Specify the partition number. |
| .TP |
| .I start |
| Specify the begin of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). |
| .TP |
| .I length |
| Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). |
| |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR delpart (8), |
| .BR fdisk (8), |
| .BR parted (8), |
| .BR partprobe (8), |
| .BR partx (8) |
| .SH AVAILABILITY |
| The addpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from |
| ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. |