Ted Hilts wrote:
> So either the swap PARTITION itself needs to be enlarged -- if that is
> safely possible (and there is no example in the article suggesting this)
> or a swap PARTITION needs to be created from (free) disk space which I
> take to mean unformatted free physical unused disk space just laying
> around for no reason at all. Most of the article deals with swap "file"
> creation and change.
>  
As always back up data before playing with disks but you can boot to a
live cd and run gparted to change drive size. I was able to double the
size of my swap partition by taking space from the partitions before (/)
and after (/home) it with no problems. I am sure that there is a way to
do it with out the live cd but it will be a lot easier to do it with one.
I haven't read the article in question but the basic steps are:
0) BACK UP IMPORTANT DATA!!!!!
1) boot to ubuntu/kubuntu/xubuntu desktop live cd (not alternate cd)
2) make sure that gparted is installed from a console run 'sudo apt-get
install gparted'
3) from the console run gparted
4) use the gui to resize and move partitions around.
5) reboot (remove the live cd when prompted to)


--
-john

To be or not to be, that is the question
          2b || !2b
(0b10)*(0b1100010) || !(0b10)*(0b1100010)
    0b11000100 || !0b11000100
    0b11000100 || 0b00111011
         0b11111111
    255, that is the answer.



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