increasing SWAP w/o re-installing Linux?

[aK]

hello,

I have Redhat 6.2 installed on my Pent II 300Mhz. total space of hda is 10
G and swap space is about 300. I think there are 1 G of unassigned space
available and I would like to increase the swap using those unassigned
space. I think I would like to increase it to 500Meg. is there any way to
do it w/o installing linux from the scratch?

thanks for your help and time

[J Sloan]

aK wrote:

Of course - I have used a utility to do this,
IIRC is was called ext2resize - google or
freshmeat can dig it up.

cu

jjs

[Eric]

Don't post to so many (even some non-existing!) groups.

What would ext2resize have to do with this?

Just make a swap partition in the extra space, add it to
/etc/fstab as a new swap partition and reboot.
Don't run mkswap on it before you reboot, as fdisk will
not have been able to update the kernel's idea of the
partitiontable.

Eric

[Matthew Cline]

aK was touched by the minds of the terrible Old Ones, and imparted unto us
these blasphemous ravings:

You can use the command mkswap to create an ordinary file (rather than a
swap partition) that acts as swap space. It's slower than normal swap, but
you don't have to repartition anything.

[SyBase]

"Eric" <scare...@oz.land> wrote in message
news:3bc6b85f$0$216$4d4e...@read-nat.news.nl.uu.net...

> Don't post to so many (even some non-existing!) groups.
>

Given the way usenet works, you cannot say those groups do not exist..
Newsgroup existence is a relative term dependent on what newsgroups a
particular news server wishes to carry.

[Dave Carrigan]

You can use GNU parted to move and resize swap and ext2 partitions. Get
it at http://www.gnu.org.