Rather than repartitioning, I would suggest you create a swap file within the current filesystem. It does not increase that much of overhead anyway. You can follow the second part of the guide here:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-swap-adding.html On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Stanley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Using fdisk example for /dev/sda... type n to create a new partition, then > p to tell fdisk that you want a primary partition. Then type 2 to create > the second primary partition, /dev/sda2 in our case. When prompted for the > first cylinder, hit enter. When prompted for the last cylinder, for example > type +512M to create a partition 512MB in size. After you've done this, > type t to set the partition type, 2 to select the partition you just > created and then type in 82 to set the partition type to "Linux Swap". > After completing these steps, typing p should display a partition table > that looks similar to this: > > Disk /dev/sda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes > 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3876 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > > /dev/sda1 * 1 14 105808+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 15 81 506520 82 Linux swap > > > then tyoe w to save the partition > > then create the swap space > > mkswap /dev/sda2 > > then add it to your fstab example: > > /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > regs > > Stan > > > 2009/12/15 Charles . <[email protected]> > >> Hello All, >> Maybe this might sound stupid, but can you create a linux swap partition? >> I've tried this using GParted, and I keep getting the attached. >> >> Charles >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MLUG-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > >
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