how to increase the swap space in suse linux?

what kind of filesystem? is all your space used up? are you using lvm? more information about your system please? Are you using Sata, Scsi, PATA? and is your system setup so that PATA drives still show up as sda or sdb drives?

Best I can do now is tell you delete your swap space. create a new partition with fdisk, then do the following

There is no need to delete the current swap - Linux can use multiple swap extents. Can be new partitions, or new swap files - the latter created with dd. Add to fstab, and use the same (swap) priority.
Lots of how-to's out there.
As always, more than one way to achieve the required reslt.

How can I find out what file system that i use?

when I type df -h

/dev/md3 58G 49G 9.1G 85% /
udev 2.0G 172K 2.0G 1% /dev
/dev/md0 102M 40M 63M 39% /boot
/dev/md1 16G 7.2G 7.9G 48% /usr

this is for the main node

for node 1
/dev/sda5 58G 202M 58G 1% /
udev 2.0G 104K 2.0G 1% /dev
/dev/sda1 102M 40M 63M 39% /boot
/dev/sdb1 75G 33M 75G 1% /scratch
/dev/sda2 16G 602M 15G 4% /usr
sod:/usr/local 16G 7.2G 7.9G 48% /usr/local
sod:/home 58G 49G 8.9G 85% /home

try searching through dmesg
or fstab

I was trying to use

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap_file bs=1M count=1000

but in the node that i want to increse it, does not have sudo command,
how can i install the command?

when i typed
dmesg | less

Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent showopts)
Linux version 2.6.16.13-4-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Wed May 3 04:53:23 UTC 2006

Ok try the following.
that should have it in there.

sudo is merely a means of running with root authority - login as root and do the deed (minus the "sudo").
sudo might be handy in a general sense, but is overkill to install it just for this. How to install it depends on distro.

when i typed it :

/dev/md3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/md0 /boot reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/md1 /usr reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/md2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/disk2 ext2 rw,noauto,user 1 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0


so what does this mean??

but when I typed it on a different node it gave me this

/dev/sda5 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda1 /boot reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sdb1 /scratch reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda2 /usr reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
sds:/usr/local /usr/local nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
sds:/home /home nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0

so the first column is the device the second column is the mount point and the third is the filesystem the fourth field is the options field and the fifth field is the dump frequency and the last field is the pass number. so to answer what filesystem you are using here is the answer.

/ = reiserfs
/boot = reiserfs
/usr = reiserfs

Thank you very much for guiding me.. :-)

I'd use gparted. Search your package handler and install it.
It's the graphical partition editor, and allows editing a partition, which includes resizing.

Be careful with it, as changes are permanent.

Hi, Q: how to increase/relocate the swap space in suse linux?

BAD ADVICE: gparted

GOOD ADVICE: PLEASE - don't repartition anything until you're SURE that you actually NEED to. In most cases, you simply don't need to.

Here's a great article to determine whether or not your current swap is adequate:
http://www.linux.com/feature/121916

IMHO .. PSM

PS:
The article also discusses how you can create a separate swap file (without needing to carve out a new partition).

PPS:
Here are two other articles that discuss creating swap partitions and swap files (should you need to):
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...ap-adding.html
http://www.linux.com/feature/113956