"David B.Teague" wrote: > > On Sat, 1 May 1999, add|ct|on wrote: > > > my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was > > wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have > > 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to > > make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with > > partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please > > speak in simple terms <g>. thanks! > > Hi > > I refer you to Oliver Elphick's response about disk repartitioning > for more swap. > > If you *need* more swap space, you can create a swap file. It will > be slower than a swap partition (you are running things through > the file system) but it works. It got me out of the woods. > > Actually, man mkwap will tell you all you need to know. Write me > back if you need to. > > --David > David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, > useful, technically accurate, and friendly. > (I'm hoping this is all of the above!) thank you for your help, david. it's appreciated, and was by for the most useful response i received. if the man confuses me i'll be sure to drop another line, thanks.