NAME

       resizepart - simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl

SYNOPSIS

       resizepart device partition length

DESCRIPTION

       resizepart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition size.

       This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.

PARAMETERS

       device Specify the disk device.

       partition
              Specify the partition number.

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

SEE ALSO

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

AVAILABILITY

       The  resizepart  command  is  part  of  the  util-linux  package  and  is  available  from
       ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.