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Manual Reference Pages  - PARTX (8)

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

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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	add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions
-d	delete specified or all partitions
-l	list partitions
--type TYPE
	Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris, unixware or gpt.
--nr M-N
	Specify the range of partitions (e.g --nr 2-4).

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

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