I Stuck - Live CD Mounts Linux Swap

[Harry Vorstenbosch]

Hello All,
In my opinion if you want to delete your swap partition first boot the
install CD and perform an install up till the partitionong part. Edit or
delete you swap partion and/or expand the partition you need, and finally
write the changes to disk without formatting the expandend part. You have to
take in account that as soon you want to boot without a swap partition
(format is swap) that your LINUX systems are booting much slower. So in fact
you have two options.
Delete via the install procedure the current swap, reboot and make more
space via qparted or whatever is on your machine.
Do all you need, via the install CD , thus delete swap edit and expand the
EXT3 part and define another swap. Te swap has to be formatted. Reboot and
you should have the room you want.

Harry,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lordSauron" <lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com>
To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 8:42 PM
Subject: I Stuck - Live CD Mounts Linux Swap


Those who don't want the whole story just skip this part, okay?

================= the whole story =====================
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

I [tried] to use WINDOWS.  what can I say?  My X40 (from IBM) came
preloaded with MS WindowsXP Pro, so needless to say I used it - for
about a year.  Then I got into Linux.  First it was my Athlon64, then
my X40, and soon my Athlon1400 will be a linux-only server.  However,
I'm a fiscal tightwad.  The act of parting with anything of monotary
value pains me greatly.  So, I rationalised that I'd kill the IBM
Rescue and Recovery partition of my laptop and load Linux on it.  I
already had about 30 sets of 30 CDs that did exactly what that IBM
partition did, and that partition was about ~3 gigs in size, so it
looked like dual-booting WindowsXP and Linux was a good match.  on a
19 gig hard drive, 3 gigs for Linux left BloatSoft WinBloats (R) a
good 16 gigs.

However, I like lots of stuff, and I started using Linux almost
exclusively.  Well...  I did boot windows once just to make sure it
hadn't died.  Anyways, I then wanted more space for Linux, so I booted
a Live CD and shrunk the NTFS partition and then found out I didn't
know how to make a ext3 partition bigger, so I then reinstalled
Kubuntu.  I'm in the same perdicament now, only one thing has changed
and it's about to drive me the rest of the way to insanity.

================= the important part ===================
Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog Live CD (and Knoppix 4.0.2, which I'm using
now) keeps mounting my Linux Swap partition... or at least using it.
This interferes with GPartEd (which is just QTPartEd in Gnome) and
keeps me from:
1) Shrinking my Windows Partition (hda1, ntfs formatted) and then
2) Bloating my Linux Partition (hda3, ext3 formatted).

My Linux Swap is in hda4 (extended partition, whatever that is) as
hda5.  I tried umount hda4, umount hda5, umount -f hda4, and umount -f
hda5.  However, this didn't do anything.

If anyone knows how to stop it from using my linux-swap partition, so
that I can GPartEd (which works better in Gnome - I didn't want to
download and burn a Kubuntu CD, okay?) my way into a bigger hard drive
so I can have more crap, namely:

1) XFCE4.  It's interesting if nothing else.
2) Enligtenment.
3) Gnome (which can come in handy on occasion...)
4) WM

and a ton of others I can't remember the names of.

so,

=========== the final question ==========================
how do I disable the swap space so it isn't in use SO qtparted reads
the drive as inactive SO I can shrink my NTFS partition SO I can grow
my ext3 partition SO I can get on with what's left of my life.

I'm just hazarding a guess right now, but I think there's a swapon
command, so does that mean there's a swapoff command?

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