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On Thursday 30 July 2009 15:47:18 Grant wrote: |
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> > Not true. I have machines with zero swap and they work just fine. I am |
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> > utterly unconcerned with out of memory conditions as whether you have |
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> > swap or not, when virtual memory runs out, either way you have a horrible |
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> > cockup that is hard to fix. Then there's the oom-killer that comes along, |
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> > stomps all over everything and just makes it worse. |
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> Sounds good. Will commenting the swap line out of /etc/fstab and |
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> rebooting disable swap? |
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Yes. Or you can just use swapoff as root. |
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> In order to resize the root partition to |
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> include the swap paritition, I'll have to boot to LiveCD right? |
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It's safest, but not always necessary. |
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If your partition table is laid out with the swap partition directly after the |
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root partition, you can delete both, recreate the root partition the same size |
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as both together. The new root partition must start where the old one did. |
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Renumber the partitions and remember to adjust fstab if you mount by device |
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number. Then resize the root file system. The filesystem and your kernel must |
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support this. |
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If your root partition and swap partition are logical partitions in fdisk, |
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this will probably fail. I do not know why, but I never got this to work. |
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Physical partitions work just fine. |
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That's a lot of "ifs". |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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