NAME
resizepart – simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctlSYNOPSIS
resizepart device partition lengthDESCRIPTION
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).
AVAILABILITY
The resizepart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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