For what it's worth, I've resized ext3 partitions several times without incident. I'd recommend about 6GB of swap for hibernation on a machine with 4GB of ram, unless using more than 2GB of swap is something you expect to have a problem with.
And yes, if something goes wrong, you'll be restoring from backup. Make them before you start. :) On Thursday November 20 2008 13:06:52 Richard Burkhart richard-at-khanfusion.net |lugod| wrote: > ... I found a guide at > http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/11/04/how-to-resize-linux-partitions-using-g >parted/ that describes resizing partitions in order to increase your swap > partition. > > Now the important question -- has anyone run across reasons (or had > experience that tells you) why you should NOT do this to a disk? > > I'm trying to get hibernate-to-disk operating on my notebook (Thinkpad > T61). It probably worked perfectly during the initial install, when I > had 1 GB of RAM, and the kubuntu installer gave me 1GB of swap. However, > I bumped the machine's RAM up to 4GB ... and according to other > research, I need at least 1xRAM of swap to make hibernate work. Some > resources suggest 2xRAM. > > ... and I'm curious if I'm going to do something ugly with these > instructions, that will end with the phrase "reformat and recover from > backup ... you HAVE been keeping backups, haven't you?" _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
