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RESIZEPART(8)                System Administration               RESIZEPART(8)

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).

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

REPORTING BUGS
       For bug reports, use the issue tracker at
       https://github.com/karelzak/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/>.

util-linux 2.37.2                 2021-06-02                     RESIZEPART(8)

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