delpart (8)

Simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl

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SYNOPSIS

delpart device partition

DESCRIPTION

delpart is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.

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

OPTIONS

device

Specify the disk device.

partition

Specify the partition number.

RELATED TO delpart…

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/.