[SunHELP] changing disk partitioning

[Edward Chase]

I've got a Solaris 9 machine that I'm setting up.  The disk partitioning is
below.

I'd like to split up slice #4 into 2 separate slices.  However when I try to
do this, I do not see any way of writing the partition table back out.

Can this be done on a running system or is a reload of the OS my only
option.  The drive only contains the OS so far.

partition> p
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 24620 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
  0       root    wm    4355 - 11613       10.00GB    (7259/0/0)  20971251
  1       swap    wu       0 -  1451        2.00GB    (1452/0/0)   4194828
  2     backup    wm       0 - 24619       33.92GB    (24620/0/0) 71127180
  3        var    wm    1452 -  4354        4.00GB    (2903/0/0)   8386767
  4 unassigned    wm   11614 - 24619       17.92GB    (13006/0/0) 37574334
  5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)            0
  6 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)            0
  7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)            0

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Edward Chase
Providence College
Information Technology