Starting and stopping the system

Creating a new boot partition

The fdisk command can be used to create new partitions. There may be up to four different partitions on your system and these may be of varying types (UnixWare, DOS, OS/2, other).

Use this procedure to create a new boot partition:

CAUTION: Creating a new bootable partition on an installed system almost always requires re-sizing existing partitions. When you alter existing partition sizes, all data on the hard disk is destroyed. If you must re-partition your system, be sure to perform a complete system backup of all existing partitions first. After you create the new bootable partition, you will have to re-install your system and restore your data.

Perform a complete system backup.
Execute the following command:
```
   fdisk
```
A menu containing several options is displayed.
Select the Create a partition option.
Follow the instructions presented. See fdisk(1M) for detailed information about the operation of fdisk.