Need to move parition

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:30:40PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:44:03PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> > 
> >>Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> >>
> >>>Right now I really don't care about elegance - I just need to get the stuff 
> >>>off that disk and replace it <G>.   A symlink it is then.
> >>
> >>yea, it will get the job done.
> >>
> >>
> >>>Next problem is how to move the swap partition.  I assume I can run without 
> >>>a swap for a period of time while I install a new disk and parition it.  If 
> >>>so how do I disable it?
> >>
> >>Technically, you could run without swap permanently, but the performance 
> >>would blow chunks if tried to use anything that was memory intensive. 
> >>Anyway, the command 'swapoff' is prolly what you're seeking, if you 
> >>don't wish to reboot.  Otherwise, just remove it from fstab.
> > 
> > 
> > Hmmm.  I may be mixing my operating systems, but I thought there was a
> > way to use a file for swapping.  No?
> 
> You're correct, you can have a swap file in linux.  But its not worth it 
> if this is just for a few minutes while he shuffles some data about.

Understood.  However, his comment that he has no place to put it made
me think that his need was going to be a bit longer than minutes.  Perhaps
at least long enough to acquire another hard drive; perhaps longer.

The main thing is how does he do it?

++ kevin


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