Manpages - addpart.8

addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

addpart device partition start length

addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the “add partition” ioctl.

This command doesn’t manipulate partitions on a block device.

device

The disk device.

partition

The partition number.

start

The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

length

The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

*delpart*(8), *fdisk*(8), *parted*(8), *partprobe*(8), *partx*(8)

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues.

The addpart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.