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/.

util-linux                                        February 2012                                    RESIZEPART(8)