PARTPROBE(8)

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💖 PARTPROBE(8) ✨ GNU Parted Manual 💖

okay bestie, this is the manual for partprobe 🧚 It's part of the GNU Parted manual, so it's basically the family of tools that handle your disk partitions. Let me walk you through it.

🎀 NAME

partprobe — inform the OS of partition table changes

okay so the name says it all. when you change a partition table, the kernel needs to hear about it, and partprobe is the one who tells it 📣

🌸 SYNOPSIS

partprobe [-d] [-s] [devices...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the partprobe command. 📝

okay so partprobe is a program that tells the operating system kernel whenever the partition table has changed. it's giving "hey, something moved, please pay attention" energy 💅

✨ OPTIONS

This program uses short UNIX style options. 🫶

  • -d, --dry-run — don't update the kernel. it's a practice run, nothing actually changes 🙈
  • -s, --summary — shows a summary of devices and their partitions. lowkey my favourite one to peek at 👀
  • -h, --help — shows a summary of the options 💜
  • -v, --version — shows the version of the program 🌈

💀 REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-parted@gnu.org> 🐛 send them to the GNU Parted folks, they'll sort it out.

🔥 SEE ALSO

parted(8). 👑 that's the big sibling tool, go check it out if you want more.

🌈 AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 🫶 Timshel wrote it for Debian, but anyone is welcome to use it, no cap.

That's the whole page, bestie! 🧚✨ It's from parted, dated March 18, 2002. Stay iconic and keep those partitions in check 💖💅

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