addpart - Unix, Linux Command

NAME

addpart - simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl

addpart device partition start length

addpart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition.

This command doesn’t manipulate with partitions on hard drive.

Tag	Description
device
	Specify the disk device.
partition
	Specify the partition number.
start	Specify the begin of the partition (in bytes).
length	Specify the length of the partition (in bytes).