Jon Pennington wrote:
>
> Calyth wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I just got a new SCSI HD, it's 1GB and I would like to use part of it to
> > replace my current swap drive.
>
> At the risk of sounding ignorant, a GIG of swap?!?
he wrote 'part of it'. but isn't 1GB disk just too small? must be
really old...
>
> > The only problem is that after partitioning, where should I configure so
> > linux would see my new swap as default and forget about the old swap?
>
> Look at /etc/fstab. Run mkswap on the new disk, change fstab so that it
> points to the new disk instead of the old disk/partition, reboot.
it might be obvious: you can use both old and new swap space.
erik
