kpartx(8) - Linux man page
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
- -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.
