NAME

       delpart - tell the kernel to forget about a partition

SYNOPSIS

       delpart device partition

DESCRIPTION

       delpart  asks  the  Linux kernel to forget about the specified partition (a number) on the
       specified device.  The command is a simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl.

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

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/.