.\" partx.8 --
.\" Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
.\" Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.TH PARTX 8 "11 Jan 2007"
.SH NAME
partx \-
telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B partx
.RB [ \-a | \-d | \-l ]
.RB [ \-\-type
.IR TYPE ]
.RB [ \-\-nr
.IR M-N ]
.RI [ partition ]
.I disk
.SH DESCRIPTION
Given a block device (
.B disk
) and a partition table
.B 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.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-a
add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions
.TP
.B \-d
delete specified or all partitions
.TP
.B \-l
list partitions. Note that the all numbers are in 512-byte sectors.
.TP
.BI --type " TYPE"
Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris, unixware or gpt.
.TP
.BI --nr " M-N"
Specify the range of partitions (e.g --nr 2-4).

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR addpart (8),
.BR delpart (8),
.BR fdisk (8),
.BR parted (8),
.BR partprobe (8)

.SH AVAILABILITY
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/.