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NAME
       partx - telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.

SYNOPSIS
       partx [-a|-d|-l] [--type TYPE] [--nr M-N] [partition] disk

DESCRIPTION
       Given  a  block  device  (  disk  ) and a partition table type , try to parse the partition table, and list the contents.
       Optionally add or remove partitions.

       This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions is not a change of the disk, but  just  telling  the  kernel  about
       presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.


OPTIONS
       -a     add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions

       -d     delete specified or all partitions

       -l     list partitions. Note that the all numbers are in 512-byte sectors.

       --type TYPE
              Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris, unixware or gpt.

       --nr M-N
              Specify the range of partitions (e.g --nr 2-4).


SEE ALSO
       addpart(8), delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8)


AVAILABILITY
       The  partx  command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-
       linux-ng/.



                                                           11 Jan 2007                                                  PARTX(8)