Re: swap partition too small

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tony Laszlo wrote:

> Hi folks. 
> 
> I managed to solve many of the early problems 
> I had been having with Debian on this 110M HD 
> notebook. 
> 
> Got a new problem though: in trying to conserve 
> the little hard disk space that I have, I have 
> made the swap partition too small. I know I 
> should probably pay penance and do the install 
> all over again, but am wondering if there is 
> a way to carve out a portion of the hard disk 
> for swap at this stage of the game. Something 
> like a fips that can shrink a Linux partition. 
> No? Just thought I'd ask before reinstalling... 

you can add another swap file with mkswap/swapon.. I forget the exact
syntax.  Not as good as a swap partition, but it does work.

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company