PARTX
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)Updated: 11 Jan 2007
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NAME
partx - telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.SYNOPSIS
partx [-a|-d|-l] [--type TYPE] [--nr M-N] [partition] diskDESCRIPTION
Given a block device ( disk ) and a partition table type , try to parse the partition table, and list the contents. Optionally add or remove partitions.This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions is not a change of the disk, but just telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.
OPTIONS
- -a
- add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions
- -d
- delete specified or all partitions
- -l
- list partitions. Note that the all numbers are in 512-byte sectors.
- --type TYPE
- Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris, unixware or gpt.
- --nr M-N
-
Specify the range of partitions (e.g --nr 2-4).
SEE ALSO
addpart(8), delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8)AVAILABILITY
The partx 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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