RESIZEPART(8) System Administration RESIZEPART(8)NAMEresizepart - simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl
SYNOPSISresizepart device partition length
DESCRIPTIONresizepart is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition
size.
This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.
PARAMETERS
device Specify the disk device.
partition
Specify the partition number.
length Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
SEE ALSOaddpart(8), delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)AVAILABILITY
The resizepart command is part of the util-linux package and is availā
able from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux February 2012 RESIZEPART(8)