swap files (Re: [plug] New linux install)

[Alan Graham]

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Not to be a pedant or anything, but you could use Gnu Parted
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html

to resize partitions without losing your install.  It's a non-destructive
partitioner (duh) but it only handles swap and ext2, so if you set up rour
system with ReiserFS or ext3, you're out of luck.

Alan

> 
> > And if so can I do it now that I have linux running or do I need to do
> > a reinstall.
> 
> If you want to increase your swap space without repartitioning, you can
> do
> that by swapping to a file as well as to a partition.  However, this is
> slower for a number of reasons, so repartitioning is the best way - but
> you do need to reinstall Linux if you repartition.
>