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delpart -

DELPART(8)                            System Administration                            DELPART(8)

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.ker‐
       nel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux                                 January 2015                                DELPART(8)

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