On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:45:12PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 at 23:16 GMT, Simon Tod penned: > > In an attempt to redistribute disk space I'm trying to shrink the size > > of my swap space. > > > > Qtparted refuses to do the job as it's in use and the version on my > > Knoppix CD doesn't appear to work. The parted boot disk is currently > > unavailable from the GNU website, so my only option at the moment > > appears to be using parted on the fly. *However* parted warns me that > > the partition is in use and modification could cause severe > > corruption. Can I ignore this warning? (running version 1.6.6-1 on > > sid). > > Perhaps you could comment out the swap section of your fstab and reboot, > then try it? Assuming that the system doesn't have a cow because it > can't find swap (I have no idea if it would), I would think this would > work. Alternatively, check out the swapoff command. And I'm given to understand that you DO NOT want to simply ignore parted's warning about modifying an in-use partition. Cheers -- ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | If I had a dog as daft as you, I'd shoot him. < > Please do not | - Scottish Proverb < > reply off-list. | < `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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