NAME


partprobe - inform the OS of partition table changes

SYNOPSIS


partprobe [-d] [-s] [devices...]

DESCRIPTION


This manual page documents briefly the partprobe command.

partprobe is a program that informs the operating system kernel of partition table changes, by requesting that the operating system re-read the partition table.

OPTIONS


This program uses short UNIX style options.
-d Don’t update the kernel.
-s Show a summary of devices and their partitions.
-h Show summary of options.
-v Show version of program.

SEE ALSO


parted(8).

AUTHOR


This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

openSUSE Logo

Contents