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/.

util-linux                                        January 2015                                        DELPART(8)