RESIZEPART
Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: February 2012
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NAME
resizepart -
simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl
SYNOPSIS
resizepart
device partition length
DESCRIPTION
resizepart
is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition size.
This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.
PARAMETERS
- device
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Specify the disk device.
- partition
-
Specify the partition number.
- length
-
Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
SEE ALSO
addpart(8),
delpart(8),
fdisk(8),
parted(8),
partprobe(8),
partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The resizepart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- PARAMETERS
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- SEE ALSO
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- AVAILABILITY
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