On Monday 20 March 2006 03:06, jdow wrote: > From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > ===8<--- Quoth Anne > 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. > ===8<--- quoth jdow > apropos swap > > > Note "swapon" and "swapoff". > Yes - I had forgotten them. Man pages are only helpful if you know what they are called ;-) Anne
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