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Re: Repartition swap space and linux native fs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neville B Dastur)
Sat Jun 8 07:05:18 1996
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 11:59:06 +0100 (BST)
From: Neville B Dastur <n.dastur@umds.ac.uk>
To: Muhammad Luqman Hakim <hakim@kusza.edu.my>
cc: Linux-net <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31B9148A.34D1@kusza.edu.my>
On Sat, 8 Jun 1996, Muhammad Luqman Hakim wrote:
> Hai all!
>
> I had install linux and run httpd on it, my system has 8 mags of RAM and
> I had setup 11088 blocks for Linux swap.
>
> can i change Linux swap to bigger size without effect any data?
>
> thanks in advance
> hakim
Of course. But remember to turn off swapping, umount that partition
first then go ahead and use fdisk to give it a new size (assuming you
have space availaable on your drive. If you want to change the native
partition size as well thats a different matter!
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