delpart (8)

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delpart.8 -- man page for delpart
Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
May be distributed under the GNU General Public License

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man8/delpart.8".)

NAME

delpart - tell the kernel to forget about a partition

SYNOPSIS

delpart device partition

DESCRIPTION

delpart asks the Linux kernel to forget about the specified partition (a number) on the specified device. The command is a simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl.
This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.

SEE ALSO

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

AVAILABILITY

The delpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux