addpart

addpart device partition start length

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

This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.

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).

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

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