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).
See Also
addpart(8), delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)
Availability
The resizepart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
Info
January 2015 util-linux System Administration