On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:48 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > I want to reorganise partitions on hdb - combining some, to make fewer, larger > partitions. gparted says that I can't do that, because hdb11 is being used > as a swap partition. I do have a swap on hda, so could easily manage wihout > it temporarily. Is there any way to do that without rebooting? I removed it > from fstab and did 'mount -a', but that doesn't solve the problem. I think > I'm right in saying that it is not mounted, in a conventional sense, so I > don't know how to proceed. The swapoff/swapon commands work and if the partition you want to take out of service is not actually in use it may be possible to use swapoff to disable it without a reboot. I could not verify that from prior experience though, so I just tested it on my running system and swapoff seemed to turn off swapping on the specified device. In my case, no swap was actually in use so I expected no problem. I would assume your experience may be dependent upon the amount of activity in swap. swapon -s gives a lot of detail about the actual swap usage.
