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Name

resizepart - tell the kernel about the new size of a partition

Synopsis

resizepart device partition length

Description

resizepart tells the Linux kernel about the new size of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl. This command doesn\(cqt manipulate partitions on a block device.

Parameters

device The disk device. partition The partition number. length The new length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). -h, --help Display help text and exit. -V, --version Print version and exit.

See Also

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

Reporting Bugs

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Availability

The resizepart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from \c