Linux manual pages Section 8: Maintenance Commands  

Name

resizepart — simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl

Synopsis

resizepart device partition length

DESCRIPTION

resizepart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition size.

This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.

PARAMETERS

device

Specify the disk device.

partition

Specify the partition number.

length

Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

SEE ALSO

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

AVAILABILITY

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


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Copyright 2012 Vivek Goyal <vgoyalredhat.com>
Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
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