Any chance someone could tell me how to resize my swap partition? Right now I have it set to 64 MB, which I think is not enough. I have 48 MB of RAM and the recommended swap size is double that. Is there any way I can resize the 64MB Swap partition to an at least 96MB partition? Thanks a bunch.

What makes you think you need more swap space? Have a look at the output from the free command. This will mention how much swap space you are using, if its not maxed out then you don't need more.

As for resizing it. If you have unpartioned space somewhere then I would simply create a second swap partition. The kernel will then automatically balance its swapping between them (assuming they have the same priority [they will have unless you change it]). If you don't have unpartition space then you'll need to use something like PartitionMagic (PartitionTragic) to shift some partitions around but make sure you backup you data first, and make sure you have a boot disk. If you move the kernel you'll break LILO so you'll need that boot disk.

cheers

Jamie...

What abt this: I install with 512 mb ram....RH create a 1gb swap partition...how can I resize it to say 256mb......1gig of hd on laptop with 6gb is a WASTE :>

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Hi,
Hmmm so you all facing prob with the swap space. so you all want to use your RAM space for the swap partition then this is not for you.

i prefer using the harddisk space for this.so here we go:

you may need some tools for this make sure you have all these:

mkswap, swapon


first of all delete the current swap partition using fdisk and creat a new with the size you want, change the partition type to linux swap.

save the configuration and run

#mkswap -c /dev/hdaX (Where X is the swap partition number you created)

edit /etc/fstab
replace the current swap partition entry with the new one, if you have created the swap partition in the same place as before and only reduced the size then this step is not required. It is only required if the new swap partition number is different from the earlier one.

Reboot the system.

man mkswap, swapon
man fstab

regards

Thanks for you detailed step-by-step info :>

I managed to changed the default 1gb of swap to just 200mb...on a laptop with 6gb of hd space + 512 mb of ram :>



cool!



total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 512828 53320 459508 0 1500 28004
-/+ buffers/cache: 23816 489012
Swap: 192740 0 192740

Did you get help yet for your problem?

See the message above you, fixed :>

Thanks