addpart (8)

addpart device partition start length

addpart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of a new partition.

This command doesn't manipulate partitions on the hard drive.

device

Specify the disk device.

partition

Specify the partition number.

start

Specify the beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

length

Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

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

The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.