DELPART

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 11 Jan 2007
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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 with 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-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

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