NAME

       delpart - simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl

SYNOPSIS

       delpart device partition

DESCRIPTION

       delpart is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.

       This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.

OPTIONS

       device Specify the disk device.

       partition
              Specify the partition number.

SEE ALSO

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

AVAILABILITY

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

util-linux                                        January 2007                                        DELPART(8)