addpart.8 -- man page for addpart
Copyright 2007 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition addpart device partition start length addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl. This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.

device The disk device.

partition The partition number.

start The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

delpart (8), fdisk (8), parted (8), partprobe (8), partx (8) The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.