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<H1>ADDPART</H1>
Section: System Administration (8)<BR>Updated: January 2015<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>addpart</B>
<I>device partition start length</I>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<B>addpart</B>
tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition.
The command is a simple wrapper around the &quot;add partition&quot; ioctl.
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This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
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<H2>PARAMETERS</H2>
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<DT id="1"><I>device</I>
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The disk device.
<DT id="2"><I>partition</I>
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The partition number.
<DT id="3"><I>start</I>
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The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
<DT id="4"><I>length</I>
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The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+delpart">delpart</A></B>(8),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+fdisk">fdisk</A></B>(8),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+parted">parted</A></B>(8),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+partprobe">partprobe</A></B>(8),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+partx">partx</A></B>(8)
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<H2>AVAILABILITY</H2>
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
<A HREF="https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.">https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.</A>
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