[ale] Near-FAQ: Repartitioning question

[Grey Matter]

As an **interim** solution, you could create one or more swap **files**

The procedure is described in 'man mkswap'

(I haven't cracked the shrinkwrap on PM5 yet to see how it handles ext2)

>I have a GNU/Linux-2.2.5, i386, RH6.0 system which has outgrown its swap
>partition: I sextupled the RAM (to handle bigger builds), and now have a
>relatively useless RAM:swap ratio of approximately 192MBy:64Mby. I'm not
>swapping much (!), but couldn't absorb much of a dump on one of those
>builds, for example.
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>...[snip]...
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>Question: Can I use Disk Druid or some other handy tool to
>nondestructively repartition (with minimal risk)? I plan to back up the
>extended partition and its subs before attacking, but it would be great if
>I could just move things around.