.\" delpart.8 --
.\" Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
.\" Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.TH DELPART 8 "11 Jan 2007"
.SH NAME
delpart \-
simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B delpart
.I device partition
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B delpart
is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.

This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.I device
Specify the disk device.
.TP
.I partition
Specify the partition number.

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR addpart (8),
.BR fdisk (8),
.BR parted (8),
.BR partprobe (8),
.BR partx (8)
.SH AVAILABILITY
The delpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.