2 .\" Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
3 .\" Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
4 .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
5 .TH ADDPART 8 "11 Jan 2007"
8 simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl
11 .I device partition start length
14 is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition.
16 This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive.
21 Specify the disk device.
24 Specify the partition number.
27 Specify the begin of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
30 Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
39 The addpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
40 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.