kpartx

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Version: 175880 (fedora - 06/07/09)

Section: 8 (Commandes administrateur)

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

SEE ALSO

multipath(8) multipathd(8) hotplug(8)

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.