addpart

addpart - simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl

addpart device partition start length

addpart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition. This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive.

I device

I partition

I start

I length

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

The addpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.