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NAME
       delpart - simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl

SYNOPSIS
       delpart device partition

DESCRIPTION
       delpart is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.

       This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a hard drive.


OPTIONS
       device Specify the disk device.

       partition
              Specify the partition number.


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

AVAILABILITY
       The delpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.ker‐
       nel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.



util-linux                                 January 2007                                DELPART(8)