swapless in Toronto

[David J Patrick]

G. Matthew Rice wrote:

>David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> writes:
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>>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..
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>You could just create a swapfile and use 'swapon' to use it. 
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Done ! Thanks Matt !
djp
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