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DELPART(8)           System Administration           DELPART(8)

📛 NAME

delpart – tell the kernel to forget about a partition

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Forget a partition from kernel memory	delpart device partition	Asks the Linux kernel to forget about the specified partition number on the given block device. Does not alter the partition table.

📋 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 — it only affects the kernel’s in-memory partition table.

🔗 SEE ALSO

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

util-linux 2.37.2           2021‑06‑02           DELPART(8)

📛 NAME 🚀 Quick Reference 📋 SYNOPSIS 📝 DESCRIPTION 🔗 SEE ALSO 🐛 REPORTING BUGS 📦 AVAILABILITY