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 DELPART 8 "11 Jan 2007"
8 simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl
14 is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.
16 This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive.
21 Specify the disk device.
24 Specify the partition number.
33 The delpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
34 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.