NAME


delpart - simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl

SYNOPSIS


delpart device partition

DESCRIPTION


delpart is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.

This command doesn’t manipulate with partitions on hard drive.

OPTIONS


device Specify the disk device.
partition
 Specify the partition number.

SEE ALSO


addpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)

AVAILABILITY


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

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