You need to work on an unmounted files system from a LiveCD. In the partition manager: Resize Ubuntu smaller. Create a new partition in free space. Choose format as Swap. Apply.
You can have more than one swap partition, so don't worry about its placement or having just one. Don't make more swap space than you need (no more than double your RAM). Too much swap space can actually slow you down as caching is slower than physical memory. Roy On 22 May 2010 20:09, JazzyJeff <[email protected]> wrote: > When I first installed Ubuntu 10.4, it made my swap partition awfully > small (about 1.5 GB which happen to be in a logical partition) and > left my system with not much memory to work with. I'd like to be able > to make this partition bigger, but GNOME's disk partitioning utility > will neither let me modify the existing swap partition nor create a > new one on my external hard drive. I tried doing the same things using > gparted in Knoppix and got nada. What gives? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
