Re: [SLE] How Do I extend my swap partition?

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:26:32PM -0800, Dan Navarro wrote:

All,

Need help to extend the size of my swap partition. I tried using YAST, but I was unable to find a way to increase the partition. Do I need to del my current swap partition and then create a new one? Be gentle, I'm a newbie.

I dont think you can increase it's size in place. But you can have more than one swap partition, so you can create a second one from another free partition. You can also create a swap file, instead of a swap device but the performance will suffer when it is used. A swap device is directly access by the kernel, with a swap file it has to go through the regular file system layer in the kernel. Cliff