how to create new partitions programmatically w/out writing java code?

[Bryan Berry]

I would like to create a new partition programmatically, ideally using
something like the commandline tool ldapadd, to create a new partition. Is
there any way to do this w/out writing java code? alternately is there any
way to prepopulate a partition in a new ldap instance by putting a copy of
a partition database?