[ale] how do I increase Linux swap file size?

[Chuck Payne]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Ron Frazier
<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My main hard drive on this machine is partitioned as follows:
>
> 157 GB NTFS Windows Vista
> 97 GB EXT4 Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)
> 8 GB Linux swap
> 235 GB NTFS Windows Data (Also usable in Ubuntu)
>
> I normally keep my swap file set for 2X system ram.  I recently upgraded
> the computer to 8 GB of RAM, so I would like to non destructively shrink
> the last partition, while keeping it at the end of the disk.  Then, I
> want to increase the swap file to 16 GB.  Anybody know how to do that,
> preferably with a graphical utility, under Ubuntu?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
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