On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:40:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > As I see it, the problem with swap partitions is their static > nature. (Once you partition the whole disk, it's partitioned. Of > course, you can leave some un-allocated space on the disk, but that > seems a waste.) So, if a year down the road, you add more RAM and > commensurately want to increase the swap space, you're stuck. >
So put everything on LVM, swap too. Unfortunatly, I don't thing that there's a way to increase a swap area (as opposed to the LV its in) on-the-fly. However, you can create a _new_ swap partition, mkswap on that, swapon that, then turn off the smaller swap. Just because you add more ram doesn't mean that you need to then add more swap space. This is Linux. It doesn't do agressive paging of unused stuff untill memory gets tight; the more RAM you add, the less tight memory is, the less swap you should need. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
