DELPART(8)

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.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.