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 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  package  and  is  available  from
       ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.