Need to move parition

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thanks.  Right now I'm running /var is off the drive, I'm trying to move 
/home and the drive is still running but I do need to move it.

Net Llama! wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:30:40PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
>> > 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?
> 
> Something like:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=4096
> mkswap /swapfile
> swapon /swapfile
> 

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