resizing swap space

[Wayne Pinette]

Your install C.D. should have a rescue option which will allow you to mount and unmount your install.  

Another option by the way, if swap performance is not a key issue here, is to just use a swap file somewhere on your drive to add to your swap space.
There is a lot of documentation on that.


Wayner


>>> Ryan Golhar <golharam at umdnj.edu> 25/09/2008 10:06 am >>>
I have RHEL 5.2 installed an need to resize the swap space.  I followed 
the default installation so the entire drive is allocated to the root 
filesystem and some space was reserved for swap and for /boot.

I now need to shrink the root filesystem, but must unmount it first. The 
problem is I can't unmount the root filesystem.  So, I think I must boot 
from a CD, then modify the size of the filesystem.

I checked out a few liveCDs but non mentioned anything about containing 
the LVM tools or fsprogs utilities.  Does anyone know which livecd or 
how I can resize the root filesystem?