On Tuesday, October 18, 2005 @ 3:47 AM, Clayton wrote:
Looking for some opinions here. I need to increase my swap partition. It's currently 1GB and I'm banging against the top of that on a regular basis (I have 1 GB of RAM, but that's no where near enough... but can't easily add more RAM). I need to at least double the swap partition... or maybe even go for 3GB.
I've never had to resize a swap partition before...
I assume I have to drop to init 1 to do this. And then use parted with the resize partition start end options? Has anyone done this? Is there an easier way to do this? parted kind of... makes me somewhat cautious.... I don't know my way around it and I'm not 100% confident with the resizing partitions thing in parted.
Any advice or suggestions would really help :-)
C.
Is your swap partition ahead of all of the other partitions on your disk? Mine is, and if I needed to do what you're saying I'd use my backup software to do it. It lets you re-size partitions ahead of a recovery. Makes things easy. If your swap is behind your other partitions, you PROBABLY couldn't screw things up too much as long as you only fiddled with the swap partition and nothing else. Greg Wallace