On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:44:16AM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Is it possible to increase the size of an existing partition or do I need to > delete and recreate it?
you can resize an ext3 filesystem with parted. > If I need to delete/recreate it, how do I handle the swap file that I have on > that partition? Can I just tar it off and back like a normal file? How do I > disable/enable the swap file? swapoff/swapon handle (de)activation of swap files and partitions. Why not change from swap file to swap partition? It seems you have plenty of space for it now... > As the file is quite large and only contains transient data, could I delete > the file first, and then recreate it afterwards? If so, how do I recreate it? Data in the swap file? I would strongly suggest you take your system into single user mode before attepting to resize a filesystem. Even better, use a bootdisk to have parted run off a RAM drive, so all your filesystems are unmounted. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Ingeniero de Sistemas Virtualia S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763 Av. Kennedy 5757, of 1502 Las Condes Santiago Chile
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