RESIZEPART(8) System Administration RESIZEPART(8)NAMEresizepart - tell the kernel about the new size of a partition
SYNOPSISresizepart device partition length
DESCRIPTIONresizepart tells the Linux kernel about the new size of the specified
partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "resize parti‐
tion" 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 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 avail‐
able from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux January 2015 RESIZEPART(8)