resizepart
simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl
see also :
addpart - delpart - fdisk - parted - partprobe - partx
Synopsis
resizepart
device partition length
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description
resizepart
is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition
size.
This command
doesn’t manipulate partitions on hard drive.
availability
The resizepart command is part of the util-linux package and is
available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
parameters
device
Specify the disk device.
partition
Specify the partition number.
length
Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
see also
addpart ,
delpart , fdisk , parted ,
partprobe , partx