KPARTX

Section: Linux Administrator's Manual (8) Updated: July 2006 Local index Up

NAME

kpartx - Create device maps from partition tables

SYNOPSIS

kpartx [-a | -d | -l] [-v] wholedisk

DESCRIPTION

This tool, derived from util-linux' partx, reads partition tables on specified device and create device maps over partitions segments detected. It is called from hotplug upon device maps creation and deletion.

OPTIONS

-a: Add partition mappings
-d: Delete partition mappings
-l: List partition mappings that would be added -a
-p: set device name-partition number delimiter
-g: force GUID partition table (GPT)
-v: Operate verbosely

AUTHORS

This man page was assembled By Patrick Caulfield for the Debian project. From documentation provided by the multipath author Christophe Varoqui, <christophe.varoqui@free.fr> and others.

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Time: 22:01:53 GMT, April 16, 2011