Do you have unused space? Otherwise you'll have to resize another partiton
No unpartitoned space. When I set up this system I assumed the 1GB RAM and 1GB swap would be enough, so the rest of the drive got allocated. That said, the Reiser partition is not full. Current config is: /dev/sda1 = swap /dev/sda2 = / (33% full) (I didn't do a separate /home partition, although I'm wishing I had now) When I look at resizing... I have to unmount my root partition to resize it... which is where things get a little dodgy for me. Using parted at the command line is do-able, but I'm not confident with it... and this is my work desktop, not a home desktop. I can afford "some" downtime while I resize things, but if I break it... it's not good. What about using the SUSE Live DVD? I've never used it... is it reasonable to expect to be able to boot from that and use YAST to "help" me through the partition shuffling? I'm not afraid of the command line most of the time, but... in this case a mistype can cause me a lot of trouble... :-)
second swap wouldn't seem to be too hard either. Is having 2 swaps equivalent to the size of one more or less a wash performance wise?
That's a good question... what is performance like if I squeeze down /dev/sda2 and add a new swap partition at /dev/sda3? C.