Moving the Linux partition

[Alex Janssen]

Tony Arnold said the following on 03/05/2007 03:20 AM:
> Alex,
>
> 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!
>   
Yes, I have.  None.  But it won't hibernate without wiping out the swap 
signature.  More RAM than disk, I suspect.  Once that has been erased I 
have to run mkswap to put the sig back so it will enable swap again.  I 
have 768MB RAM and 586MB swap partition.  I would like to hibernate 
rather than shut-down.  This is a laptop.  A dynamic swap file would be 
good.  Know how to implement one?  If I set up a swap file of 182MB, the 
difference between 768 and 586,  would linux use both as one space?  
What about a script for hibernation?  If there is a hibernation image in 
a swap file as opposed to  a swap partition, will Linux reload it 
instead of booting a new session?  Maybe I should expand the Linux 
partition to absorb the old swap partition and create a swap file just 
for hibernating.

Any advice is welcome.

Alex

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