swap partition too small

2000-07-13 Thread Tony Laszlo
In trying to conserve the little hard disk space (110M) that I have, I have unfortunately made the swap partition too small when installing Debian. I know I should probably pay penance and do the install all over again, but am wondering if there is a way to carve out a portion of the hard

Re: swap partition too small

2000-07-13 Thread Jeff Green
unfortunately made the swap partition too small when installing Debian. I know I should probably pay penance and do the install all over again, but am wondering if there is a way to carve out a portion of the hard disk for swap at this stage of the game. Something like a fips that can shrink

Re: swap partition too small

2000-07-13 Thread Matthew Dalton
Tony Laszlo wrote: In trying to conserve the little hard disk space (110M) that I have, I have unfortunately made the swap partition too small when installing Debian. I know I should probably pay penance and do the install all over again, but am wondering if there is a way to carve out

Re: swap partition too small

2000-07-13 Thread Ethan Pierce
I use a bootable partition magic diskette to move partitions around.works flawlessly. Let me know if you want the disks - Original Message - From: Tony Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 12:58 AM Subject: swap partition too small

Re: swap partition too small

2000-07-13 Thread Tony Laszlo
Many thanks to Jeff and Matthew for the advice on my swap dilemma. On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Jeff Green wrote: Find someone who owns a copy of pq-magic. The DOS version will run from On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: (this will give you a file 4Mb large, containing all 0's, in the