delpart

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 with partitions on hard drive.

OPTIONS

I device
Specify the disk device.
I 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-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.