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addpart − tell the kernel about the existence of a partition
addpart device partition start length
addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl.
This command doesn’t manipulate partitions on a block device.
device
The disk device.
partition
The partition number.
start
The beginning of the partition (in 512−byte sectors).
length
The length of the partition (in 512−byte sectors).
delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)
For bug reports, use the issue tracker at <https://github.com/karelzak/util−linux/issues>.
The addpart 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/>.