David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
1. I'ts not /swap, it's just swap. Unlike Windows, swap partitions do not need to be within any filesystem. More below.
Critical situation. Server running 100G drive. The drive started to fail. Plenty of backups available and I was able to recovered all data to another server. Installed fresh 250G sata drives configured in hardware raid (sdb and sdc). Used the /swap from the failing drive (sda) for install purposes because I didn't was to put swap on the raid. Fresh 10.3 install replacing last mandrake server went fine. Server runs fine, just gives occasional /sda offline errors.
Problem, the old drive with /swap is sda, the /swap partition is sda5. The sda drive must be replaced, but how?
The question: "Can I just install a new sda, and boot and then partition a new /swap with yast, or, will the boot process freak out
That depends on how much memory you have, and how much memory usage there is. But why not just use the Install/Repair CD and partition your new sda properly, and make sda5 type swap again?
when /swap isn't available and cause the boot to fail?" I'm going to try it, but if someone else has done this and has advise to help avoid any "gotchas", I would definitely appreciate a heads up.
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