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Manual Reference Pages  - KPARTX (8)

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kpartx - Create device maps from partition tables

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Synopsis
Description
Options

kpartx [-a | -d | -l] [-v] wholedisk

This tool, derived from util-linux’ partx, reads partition tables on specified device and create device maps over partitions segments detected. It is called from hotplug upon device maps creation and deletion.

-a	Add partition mappings
-d	Delete partition mappings
-l	List partition mappings that would be added -a
-p	set device name-partition number delimiter
-v	Operate verbosely

multipath(8) multipathd(8) hotplug(8)

This man page was assembled By Patrick Caulfield for the Debian project. From documentation provided by the multipath author Christophe Varoqui, <christophe.varoqui@free.fr> and others.

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