DELPART(8) System Administration DELPART(8)

delpart - tell the kernel to forget about a partition

delpart device partition

delpart asks the Linux kernel to forget about the specified partition (a number) on the specified device. The command is a simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl.

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

-h, --help

Display help text and exit.

-V, --version

Print version and exit.

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

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

The delpart 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/.

2024-04-01 util-linux 2.40