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1.3 KiB
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57 lines
1.3 KiB
Groff
.\" partx.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 PARTX 8 "11 Jan 2007"
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.SH NAME
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partx \-
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telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B partx
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.RB [ \-a | \-d | \-l ]
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.RB [ \-\-type
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.IR TYPE ]
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.RB [ \-\-nr
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.IR M-N ]
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.RI [ partition ]
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.I disk
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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Given a block device (
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.B disk
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) and a partition table
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.B type
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, try to parse the partition table, and list the
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contents. Optionally add or remove partitions.
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This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions
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is not a change of the disk, but just telling the kernel
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about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.B \-a
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add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions
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.TP
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.B \-d
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delete specified or all partitions
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.TP
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.B \-l
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list partitions. Note that the all numbers are in 512-byte sectors.
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.TP
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.BI --type " TYPE"
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Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris, unixware or gpt.
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.TP
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.BI --nr " M-N"
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Specify the range of partitions (e.g --nr 2-4).
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR addpart (8),
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.BR delpart (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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.SH AVAILABILITY
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The partx command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
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