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DELPART(8)                                      System Administration                                      DELPART(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.ker‐
       nel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.



util-linux                                           January 2007                                          DELPART(8)