Re: Increasing the swap partition

[Andrew Clausen]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:23:30PM -0400, James Trickel wrote:
> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38166.679 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031     15.688  primary   ext2        boot
> 2         15.688  38162.219  extended              
> 5         15.719    149.040  logical   linux-swap  
> 6        149.071  38162.219  logical   ext2        
> 
> 1=/boot
> 5=swap
> 6=/
> 
> I would like to increase the swap from 136M to at least 1G.

(parted) resize 6 149 37000
(parted) mkpartfs logical linux-swap 37001 38166

You can keep partition 5 as swap, just it's a long way from the other one,
so it's prolly best to simply not use it.

Andrew