Linux manual pages Section 8  

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 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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Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzakredhat.com>
Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
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