Dr Andrew Scott G7VAV

MBCS, MIET, Member ACM, Member IEEE

Senior Lecturer
School of Computing
and Communications

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Lancaster University
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United Kingdom

DELPART

Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: January 2007
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NAME

delpart - simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl

delpart device partition

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

This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.

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

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