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39 lines
950 B
Groff
.\" resizepart.8 --
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.\" Copyright 2012 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
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.\" Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
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.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
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.TH RESIZEPART 8 "February 2012" "util-linux" "System Administration"
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.SH NAME
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resizepart \-
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simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B resizepart
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.I device partition length
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B resizepart
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is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition size.
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This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.
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.SH PARAMETERS
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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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.TP
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.I length
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Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
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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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.BR partx (8)
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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The resizepart 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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