[CLUE-Tech] swap partition

[David Anselmi]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> 
> I have my swap partition as a primary partition, but I have been doing 
> some repartitioning and I would now like to put it into an extended 
> partition.  How do I create a new swap partition on my existing 
> installation?

A primary partition is one of the first 4 (e.g. hda1 - hda4).  A logical 
partition is one after the first 4.  An extended partition is a primary 
partition that contains logical partitions.  It makes no difference what 
you put in the various partitions, just which number they get.  Try to 
be consistent how you lay things out so you don't confuse yourself.

1) make a partition

2) run mkswap on that partition

3) add the partition to your fstab and/or run the swapon command

Dave