Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

On 2008-02-22, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:
>
> Are you aware that you can resize your partitions non destructively using
> something like qtparted? First backup all your data before you do anything
> like this. This is what I did when I found out that my RAM size is larger
> than my swap partition.
>

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the options for resizing
partitions without losing data is pretty limited. I recently went
through a round of resizing, and while I could move swap into adjacent
unused space, I could only alter the end of a data partition. i.e., I
could make an existing partition bigger or smaller, but I could not
move it.

So, unless I'm missing something, you can only make swap bigger if it
occurs after a data partition. Had I understood this all when I
installed I'd have made sure to put swap at the very end of the drive,
instead of in the middle of a virtual partition...

Cheers,

Tyler

ps - your message was flagged follow-up-to gmane.linux.debian.user,
which was rejected by slrn as an invalid newsgroup. I don't know if
this is a problem at my end or your end...