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]
disk
DESCRIPTION
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/.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- SEE ALSO
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- AVAILABILITY
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