man kpartx Command

Man page for apt-get kpartx Command

Man Page for kpartx in Linux

This tutorial shows the man page for man kpartx in linux.

Open terminal with 'su' access and type the command as shown below:
man kpartx

Result of the Command Execution shown below:

KPARTX(8)                                                           Linux Administrator's Manual                                                           KPARTX(8)



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,
        and others.




                                                                              July 2006                                                                    KPARTX(8)

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