You could simply create a swapfile on /dev/sda3 of the desired size and
use it concurrently with your swap partition (there is no problem with
having more tan one swap device active). As you say there is a slight
performance disadvantage with swap files over swap partitions but I doubt
if you would notice the difference.
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, System Administrator wrote:
>
> ok, the last 2 partitions on my drive are this..
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders
> /dev/sda3 639 639 1101 3719047+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/sda4 1024 1102 1106 40162+ 82 Linux swap
>
> is there any way I can take a chunk off the end of sda3 and then
> remake my sda4 to be like 128MB? Without destroying the current info on
> sda3.
>
> someone suggested just making a swapFILE on sda3 instead with mkswap.
> would there be any performance difference? if not, could i tack my unused
> sda4 onto sda3 then or would i have to mount it under a specific
> directory to reuse it again?
>
> Thanx,
>
> -Tony
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