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Name

partprobe - inform the OS of partition table changes

Synopsis

partprobe [ -d ] [ -s ] [ devices... ]

Description

This manual page documents briefly the partprobe command.

partprobe is a program that informs the operating system kernel of partition table changes.

Options

This program uses short UNIX style options.

-d, --dry-run Don't update the kernel.

-s, --summary Show a summary of devices and their partitions.

-h, --help Show summary of options.

-v, --version Show version of program.

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>

See Also

  1. parted(8).

Author

This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).