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35 lines
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Groff
.\" delpart.8 --
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.\" Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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.\" Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
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.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
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.TH DELPART 8 "January 2007" "util-linux" "System Administration"
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.SH NAME
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delpart \-
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simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B delpart
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.I device partition
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B delpart
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is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.
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This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a hard drive.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.I device
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Specify the disk device.
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.TP
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.I partition
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Specify the partition number.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR addpart (8),
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.BR fdisk (8),
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.BR parted (8),
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.BR partprobe (8),
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.BR partx (8)
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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The delpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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