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.

Welcome to Linux, Daniel! You can use many swap partitions. No need to delete existing one Just create a new partition using fdisk, change its type to 82 (swap) then run mkswap command pointing it to a partition you created. E.g. if you created /dev/hda6, the command would be ``mkswap /dev/hda6''. To make the system recognize and use your newly added swap you need to add it to /etc/fstab. Open /etc/fstab in your favorite editor (I like vi) and find the line like: /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 2 This one describes /dev/hda2 as a swap partition. All you need to do is add a new line like: /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 2 After that command swapon -a will make all partitions of type swap from /etc/fstab available to system. Your friends in learning swap are man pages for fstab, swapon, and mount. HTH, -Kastus

TIA, Daniel N.

SuSE 7.0 Pro, PentiumII 266Mhz, 128Mb RAM, 4GB HD, Kernel 2.2.14, KDE 1.1.2

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