RESIZEPART(8) System Administration RESIZEPART(8)
NAME
resizepart - tell the kernel about the new size of a partition
SYNOPSIS
resizepart device partition length
DESCRIPTION
resizepart tells the Linux kernel about the new size of the specified partition. The com‐
mand is a simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl.
This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
PARAMETERS
device The disk device.
partition
The partition number.
length The new length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
SEE ALSO
addpart(8), delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The resizepart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux January 2015 RESIZEPART(8)
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