Re: [ilugd] Re: ram for speed

2003-10-29 Thread Varun Varma
Arvind Sinha wrote: I dont know if you can resize the linux partitions without reinstalling the linux again. I dont think there are any partition resizers for linux as such. Arvind man parted Regards, Varun Varma --- Mindframe Software Services Pvt. Ltd.

Re: [ilugd] Re: ram for speed

2003-10-29 Thread Arvind Sinha
Great suggestion and simple too. Arvind On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:25, supreet wrote: Issue here is not, we can resize or not without reinstalling. Issues is, we can add more swap in any form, without re-installing. that we can choose a favourite file name. example swap.txt dd if=/dev/zero

Re: [ilugd] Re: ram for speed

2003-10-29 Thread Raj Mathur
Arvind == Arvind Sinha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Arvind Great suggestion and simple too. Arvind And also, as Supreet pointed out, deathly slow. Don't do it unless you absolutely have no other option left. Regards, -- Raju Arvind On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:25, supreet wrote:

Re: [ilugd] Re: ram for speed

2003-10-28 Thread LinuxLingam
thanks guys for your inputs. just went and kicked and some tyres on the pc, and started by switching off services not needed, checked the swap was *equal* to the ram, felt shaky about messing with swap size with someone else's installed and running pc, and discovered its speed was better.

Re: [ilugd] Re: ram for speed

2003-10-28 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 LL == linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LL thanks guys for your inputs. just went and kicked and some LL tyres on the pc, and started by switching off services not LL needed, checked the swap was *equal* to the ram, felt shaky

Re: [ilugd] Re: ram for speed

2003-10-28 Thread supreet
Issue here is not, we can resize or not without reinstalling. Issues is, we can add more swap in any form, without re-installing. that we can choose a favourite file name. example swap.txt dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap.txt bs=1024 count=according to swap size you want mkswap /swap.txt swapon