man kpartx (Administration système) - Create device maps from partition tables
NAME
kpartx - Create device maps from partition tables
SYNOPSIS
kpartx [-a c | -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
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.