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ADDPART(8)                   System Administration                   ADDPART(8)

📖 NAME

addpart — tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
➕ Add partition to kernel awareness	addpart device partition start length	Notify the kernel about a partition without modifying the block device.

📝 SYNOPSIS

addpart device partition start length

📖 DESCRIPTION

addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl.

This command doesn’t manipulate partitions on a block device.

⚙️ PARAMETERS

device 💾 The disk device. partition 🔢 The partition number. start 📍 The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). length 📏 The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

📚 SEE ALSO

• delpart(8)
• fdisk(8)
• parted(8)
• partprobe(8)
• partx(8)

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues.

📦 AVAILABILITY

The addpart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

util-linux 2.37.2             2021-06-02                       ADDPART(8)

📖 NAME 🚀 Quick Reference 📝 SYNOPSIS 📖 DESCRIPTION ⚙️ PARAMETERS 📚 SEE ALSO 🐛 REPORTING BUGS 📦 AVAILABILITY