DELPART
Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: January 2015
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NAME
delpart - tell the kernel to forget about a partition
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.
SEE ALSO
addpart(8),
fdisk(8),
parted(8),
partprobe(8),
partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The delpart 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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