Re: Please ignore the first post.

[Andrew Clausen]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:25:59PM -0400, James Trickel wrote:
> Just curious if the following is all I need to do to get my swap space I need.
> 
> current parted output of print
> 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        
> 
> fdisk reports 1=/boot and 5=linux-swap and 6=/
> 
> Steps
> 1) resize 6 149.071 3700.0
> 2) mkpartfs logical linux-swap 3700.0 38162.219

That gives you a swap of about 35 Gb.

> reset /etc/lilo to the correct swap. Done(?)

you mean /etc/fstab.  You also might need to change /etc/lilo.conf,
if you change the number of your root partition (by, say, deleting
/dev/hda5)

> Would this be correct? I do not see how to pass to the resize or mkpartfs 
> MegByte information. Is this possible, or am I playing a guessing game here?

All numbers are megabytes.

Andrew