Moving the Linux partition

[Tony Arnold]

Alex,

Alex Janssen wrote:
> I running Linux di1100u 2.6.17-11-386 #2 Thu Feb 1 19:50:13 UTC 2007 
> i686 GNU/Linux.
> 
> My partition layout is:
> Disk /dev/hdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdc1   *           1        1926    15470563+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdc2            1927        6005    32764567+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hdc3            6006        8045    16386300    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hdc4            8046        9729    13526730    5  Extended
> /dev/hdc5   *        8046        9656    12940326   83  Linux
> /dev/hdc6            9657        9729      586341   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> 
> What do you think the possibility is of changing hdc3 to an ext3 
> partition,  copying via dd hdc5 to it, and making grub boot linux from 
> there?  I'm not sure at this point, how to make grub do this. I'm 
> guessing boot from the Ubuntu CD and do the normal grub restore thing 
> with root set to (hd0,2) for grub?
> 
> I want to do this to gain space for my swap partition because I added 
> more memory.

Maybe a daft question, but have you looked to see how much swap space is
being used on your system? You may find you don't need to increase the
swap file size at all. In general, the more memory you have the less
swap space is needed!

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