On Tuesday 25 May 2010 08:13:19 Alan Pope wrote: > On 25 May 2010 06:48, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I'm not quite clear about the process of switching from the old swap > > partition to the new one, Aymeric. I expect if the machine finds itself > > without any swap partition at all it will die a horrible death > > Nope. Most computers can run just fine with no swap at all. The issue > comes when you run out of memory as you load big programs and data. > Eventually there will be no more space in memory to load stuff and the > kernel will start killing off programs (the OOM [out of memory] killer > does this). > > It's perfectly possible to run with no swap during the process of > moving / recreating swap temporarily. > > > and be > > completely unrecoverable except by using another machine to re-write the > > hard disk contents, so I don't want any risk of that. Could you explain > > how the hibernate command works? Is the idea that on the next start-up, > > the machine will switch to using the new swap partition? How can I be > > certain it is no longer using the old one, after the next start-up? I > > have to be 100% of this before deleting the old swap partition. > > swapon -s will list the swap partitions in use:- > > > a...@ubuntu-uk:~$ swapon -s > Filename Type Size Used > Priority /dev/sda2 partition 262136 > 97792 -1
IIRC You also have to make sure that /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume also points to the new swap partition and then update initramfs. -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
