RESIZEPART
Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: January 2015
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NAME
resizepart - tell the kernel about the new size of a partition
SYNOPSIS
resizepart
device partition length
DESCRIPTION
resizepart
tells the Linux kernel about the new size of the specified partition.
The command is a simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl.
This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
PARAMETERS
- device
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The disk device.
- partition
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The partition number.
- length
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The new length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
SEE ALSO
addpart(8),
delpart(8),
fdisk(8),
parted(8),
partprobe(8),
partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The resizepart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- PARAMETERS
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- SEE ALSO
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- AVAILABILITY
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