ADDPART(8) ADDPART(8) NAME addpart - simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl SYNOPSIS addpart device partition start length DESCRIPTION addpart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition. This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive. PARAMETERS device Specify the disk device. partition Specify the partition number. start Specify the begin of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). length Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). SEE ALSO delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8) AVAILABILITY The addpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is avail- able from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. 11 Jan 2007 ADDPART(8)