[ale] fun fun changing Linux swap partition to a swap file

[Ron Frazier]

Tim,

You may be right.  Now I'm confused.  Oh horsefeathers!  Gparted reports
the partition as 97 GB and Disk Utility shows it as 105 GB.  ARRGH!

Thanks for the tip.  I'll try to investigate it and see what's going on.
Back to the drawing board.  Anyone else know about this issue?

Ron

On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 09:23 -0500, Tim Watts wrote:
> Thanks Ron. Sounds like you had fun :-)
> 
> I may have missed it but I think one important step you left out is
> extending the /filesystem/. Extending the partition give you more "land"
> but leaves the filesystem's "fence" where it was. To actually benefit
> from the space you just allocated you also need to "move the fence". See
> resize2fs (I think) in e2fsprogs pkg. I don't remember specifically, but
> I think you can do this on a mounted fs. I did this when I extended my
> root fs. Didn't have to live cd boot as I recall.
> 
> And as Mike pointed out LVM is your friend.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 01:17 -0500, Ron Frazier wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > As I've mentioned in other posts, I've been experimenting with using
> > cloning as my main backup method.  I was testing a hard drive that I'd

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