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Manual

RESIZEPART

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
PARAMETERS
SEE ALSO
REPORTING BUGS
AVAILABILITY

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NAME

resizepart - tell the kernel about the new size of a partition

SYNOPSIS

resizepart device partition length

DESCRIPTION

resizepart tells the Linux kernel about the new size of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl.

This command doesn’t manipulate partitions on a block device.

PARAMETERS

device

The disk device.

partition

The partition number.

length

The new length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

-h , --help

Display help text and exit.

-V , --version

Display version and exit.

SEE ALSO

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

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker <https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.

AVAILABILITY

The resizepart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

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