 
			| GNU/Linux | Ubuntu 9.04(Jaunty Jackalope) | |
|  | addpart(8) |  | 
addpart − simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl
addpart device partition start length
addpart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition.
This command doesn’t manipulate with partitions on hard drive.
| device | Specify the disk device. | 
partition
Specify the partition number.
| start | Specify the begin of the partition (in bytes). | |||
| length | Specify the length of the partition (in bytes). | 
delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)
The addpart command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
|  | addpart(8) |  |