resizing swap

Ryan Golhar golharam at umdnj.edu
Fri Sep 26 20:10:48 UTC 2008


ah ha!  Thank you!

I was holding out on creating a swap file because I knew it would hinder 
performance somewhat.

I even thought about creating my own redhat liveCD to get the LVM tools 
to do this, but this solution is much easier.


Andrey Meganov wrote:
> Sorry, for not answering in the thread, i only get maillist digest.
> 
> You can shrink the root LV, while it's mounted readonly. Just boot to 
> the single user, remount / read only and resize. Don't forget to shrink 
> the fs first, then the LV
> 
> Regards,
> Andrey
> 
> Sent from my iPhone as I am away from office
> 


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