On Sunday 21 Jul 2013 10:21:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:14:22 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > What a lot of work! > > Yes, probably too much. > > > Oh, or I could sacrifice (part of) a swap partition to expand /boot > > into. > > That would be easier, you could always add more swap from an LV, unless > you use it for suspend.
I have more swap than I need, arranged thus: $ grep swap /etc/fstab /dev/sda3 none swap sw,pri=10 0 0 /dev/sdb3 none swap sw,pri=10 0 0 /dev/sda7 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 /dev/sdb7 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 ...in which sdX3 is 2GB (not GBs, Dale - time doesn't come into it ;-) ) and sdX7 is 10GB. Thus the big swap areas are only used when necessary to compile LO, Firefox and pals. I could easily halve sda3 and still have plenty of swap. No, I don't suspend this box because it's permanently active running four BOINC jobs at a time. -- Regards, Peter
