Eric, You may also want to look at cfdisk. The user interface, though requiring ncursors, is nicer IMO. Plus, the man page of fdisk says something like: "Don't use fdisk 'cause it's buggy. Use cfdisk instead." (!?!?!?!) Anyway, I found cfdisk more intuitive than fdisk. YMMV. Regards Gustav Hidong Kim wrote: > > You can use fdisk to repartition the 1 G space into a smaller swap and > another regular (ext2) partition. If you're going to reconfigure your > swap space, you'll get better performance with one large swap instead of > multiple smaller ones. Good luck, > > Hidong > > eric clover wrote: > > > > hello > > first , thank you to all that have helped me on my other questions. > > next , > > my boss set up a mail server , with 256m ram , and a (I don't know why he > > did this) 1g (yes , I said 1 gig) swap! > > we are lucky if the server uses like over 500k of the swap at any given time > > , though I have seen it use, at the most, up to 17megs of the swap. > > is there any easy way I can free up that unused swap , and maybe have a > > smaller one , or like 2 128m swaps, without going through a lot of > > hassle? > > thank you again. > > ps.. glad to see that the list is back up and running smooth again > > Eric -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at http://www.schaffter.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
