resizepart

SYNOPSIS
       resizepart device partition length

DESCRIPTION
       resizepart  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 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  avail-
       able from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.



util-linux                       February 2012                   RESIZEPART(8)