swapless in Toronto

[G. Matthew Rice]

David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 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..

You could just create a swapfile and use 'swapon' to use it. 
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