[ale] reclaiming swap space in ubuntu VM

[Wolf Halton]

On 06/15/2011 05:22 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> How do I find out if the folder is on a Logical Volume ?
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:02 PM, David Tomaschik 
> <david at systemoverlord.com <mailto:david at systemoverlord.com>> wrote:
>
>     If the /home/devusr folder is on a Logical Volume, you could add an
>     additional physical volume (PV) and span the two, then extend the ext4
>     fs on /home/devuser.
>
>     David
>
>
>     On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
>     <savithari at gmail.com <mailto:savithari at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Friends:
>     >
>     > I have a swap space of 8G and I want to reclaim 6GB of it.  I
>     think I might
>     > be able to do it.  Once I reclaim it, I intend to format the
>     space to ext4.
>     >
>     > How can I think make it a part of the /home/devusr folder so the
>     system wont
>     > complain for lack of space, aka if I install an app in the
>     /home/devusr
>     > folder the system should say there is ample space and complain.
>     >
>     > -Narahari
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It would probably be faster just to make a new VM with the right 
partition sizes and copy the data from one's /home/~ to the other's 
/home/~  I am not sure gparted would work on it.
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