kpartx

wikipedia:kpartx Create device maps from partition tables and it is included in the kpartx package.

Related terms

• Device mapper
• LVM
• fdisk
• HBA
• growpart

See also

• Block devices, partition, GUID Partition Table (GPT), fdisk, parted, Kpartx, partition, /proc/partitions, blockdev, mkfs, partprobe, diskpart (Windows), fdisk -l /dev/nbd0
• Block devices: HDD, SSD, Intel Optane, block size