swapless in Toronto

[James Knott]

David J Patrick wrote:
> I installed ubuntu, on my Thinkpad, and have been very happy with it. 
> Unfortunately, as I was custom partitioning, I /forgot/ to create a swap 
> partition. DOH ! I didn't even notice, for the longest time, but some 
> apps (Inkscape) gets hungry for more than my available 384meg and crash 
> le box ! What's the sane way to resize my home partition ? I've poked 
> around parted, gk-parted, gparted, but honestly, I'm a little afraid..
> I have an ubuntu LIVE CD, with parted, but it only seems to see hda5 
> (/home) while it is mounted, and I can't resize while mounted, right ?
> I know this is admin kid stuff.. but my Mom is an even worse admin.
> whatdoIdo ? whatDOiDO ?

You can always create a swap file, instead of a dedicated partition.

man mkswap for details.



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