RESIZEPART(8) System Administration RESIZEPART(8) NAME resizepart - simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl SYNOPSIS resizepart device partition length DESCRIPTION resizepart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition size. This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive. PARAMETERS device Specify the disk device. partition Specify the partition number. length Specify the 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.ker‐ nel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. util-linux February 2012 RESIZEPART(8)