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+.\" resizepart.8 -- man page for resizepart
+.\" Copyright 2012 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
+.\" Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
+.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
+.TH RESIZEPART 8 "January 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration"
+.SH NAME
+resizepart \- tell the kernel about the new size of a partition
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B resizepart
+.I device partition length
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B resizepart
+tells the Linux kernel about the new size of the specified partition.
+The command is a simple wrapper around the "resize partition" ioctl.
+
+This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.
+
+.SH PARAMETERS
+.TP
+.I device
+The disk device.
+.TP
+.I partition
+The partition number.
+.TP
+.I length
+The new length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR addpart (8),
+.BR delpart (8),
+.BR fdisk (8),
+.BR parted (8),
+.BR partprobe (8),
+.BR partx (8)
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+The resizepart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
+https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.