| Quote (plastic @ Sep. 27 2004,10:43) |
| I installed DSL to my hard drive, but because I had linux partitioning problems, I installed it without a swap partition, etc. I want to reinstall it again properly. Right now my hard drive has partitions hda1 (Windows) and hda2 (for Linux), which I had made with fips. My question: If I use cfdisk or fdisk on hda, to create hda3 and hda4, could it damage the data on hda1? Should I just use fips instead to make hda3 and hda4 so that hda1 is not damaged? (Also, if I amcreating partitions after the hda2 which has DSL on it, do I have to do something like an 'uninstall' or somehow erase the data first?) Thank you for your help. |
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| Operation.........................................................Command Ensure you have sufficient ..........................................................df -h diskspace to create the disk Check your existing swap space...................................................swapon -s Create a 32MB file for use as additional swap space.......................dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/swapfile count=32768 bs=1024 Confirm the new swapfile is actually..............................................ls -l /dev/swapfile 32MB in size (33554432 bytes Convert this new file to a swap file.................................................mkswap /dev/swapfile Add this new swap space (swapfile)................................................swapon /dev/swapfile to your existing swap space (swap partition) Check your new swap space..........................................................swapon s |