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Name

delpart - simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl

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.

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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