Tony Laszlo wrote: > > In trying to conserve the little hard disk space > (110M) that I have, I have unfortunately made the > swap partition too small when installing Debian. I > know I should probably pay penance and do the install > all over again, but am wondering if there is a way to > carve out a portion of the hard disk for swap at this > stage of the game. Something like a fips that can shrink > a Linux partition. No? Just thought I'd ask before > reinstalling...
You can use files for swap space as well, so if you really don't want to repartition, you could just add more swap by using a file. I've never actually done it before, but I'd imaging you'd want to do something like this: (this will give you a file 4Mb large, containing all 0's, in the root directory) # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1k count=4096 (format it as a swap file) # mkswap /swapfile 4096 (flush the disk cache) # sync (put it to use) # swapon /swapfile To automatically use it on boot: Edit the /etc/fstab file and add the line: /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 It should work... you might have to play around with the mount options though. Google gave me this link (among others) with the search string "swap file linux": http://wip.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/doc/LDP/install-guide/node187.html ... if you want to read more on the subject. Matthew
