partx — telling the kernel about presence and
numbering of on-disk partitions.
Synopsis
partx [-a|-d|-l] [--type TYPE]
[--nr M-N] [partition] disk
DESCRIPTION
Given a block device ( disk ) and a partition
table type ,
try to parse the partition table, and list the contents.
Optionally add or remove partitions.
This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions is
not a change of the disk, but just telling the kernel about
presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.
OPTIONS
−a
add specified partitions or read disk and add all
partitions
−d
delete specified or all partitions
−l
list partitions
−−type TYPE
Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris,
unixware or gpt.