DELPART

Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: January 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 partitions on a 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 package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
AVAILABILITY