partx

partx - telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.

partx [-a|-d|-l] [--type TYPE] [--nr M-N] [partition] disk

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.

-a

-d

-l

I --type TYPE

I --nr M-N

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

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/.