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NAME

       addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

SYNOPSIS

       addpart device partition start length

DESCRIPTION

       addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command
       is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl.

       This command doesn’t manipulate partitions on a block device.

PARAMETERS

       device
           The disk device.

       partition
           The partition number.

       start
           The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

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

       -h, --help
           Display help text and exit.

       -V, --version
           Print version and exit.

SEE ALSO

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

REPORTING BUGS

       For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY

       The addpart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux
       Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.