MAN page from Mandriva 2009 multipath-tools-0.4.8-4mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
KPARTX
Section: Linux Administrator's Manual (8)
Updated: July 2006
Index NAME
kpartx - Create device maps from partition tables
SYNOPSIS
kpartx[
-a | -d | -l][
-v]wholedisk
DESCRIPTION
This tool, derived from util-linux' partx, reads partitiontables 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 Caulfieldfor the Debian project. From documentation providedby the multipath author Christophe Varoqui, <christophe.varoquiAATTfree.fr> and others.
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- OPTIONS
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHORS
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