When I installed my suse11.1 and use all of my HD for /Home.The swap0.0KB all the time is it okay,what I did?.

I think it is OK in the sense that it will work, however having swap is definitely recommended.

Even with a lot of memory having swap can allow the operating system to move data which hasn't been accessed for a long time back to the hard disk (swap) and reclaim that amount of memory for speeding currently active things up, e.g. using the memory as a buffer for file operations.

Cheers,
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anda_skoa wrote:I think it is OK in the sense that it will work, however having swap is definitely recommended.

Even with a lot of memory having swap can allow the operating system to move data which hasn't been accessed for a long time back to the hard disk (swap) and reclaim that amount of memory for speeding currently active things up, e.g. using the memory as a buffer for file operations.

Cheers,
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Is there a way,so I can change to 8GB Swap in partitioning and suse use all my HD.

Swap is usually calculated at RAM*1.5. The default setup with a clean hard disk is to create a three partition system: swap, root, and home.

bcooksley wrote:Swap is usually calculated at RAM*1.5. The default setup with a clean hard disk is to create a three partition system: swap, root, and home.

I learned that after I installed. How can I now change a partition and add a swap partition?

As far as I am aware, it is not possible to resize partitions ( or more precisely, their file systems ). You will have to backup and reinstall, ensuring the desired partition scheme is chosen.

bcooksley wrote:As far as I am aware, it is not possible to resize partitions ( or more precisely, their file systems ). You will have to backup and reinstall, ensuring the desired partition scheme is chosen.

@bcooksley,

I appreciate your solved my problem,my little task is next week I will back up my Bookmarks and that is all I have to do.

Thanks all of you for helping me out.

Cheers

bcooksley wrote:As far as I am aware, it is not possible to resize partitions ( or more precisely, their file systems ). You will have to backup and reinstall, ensuring the desired partition scheme is chosen.

That's not actually true, sometimes you can resize a partition

Damnshock wrote:That's not actually true, sometimes you can resize a partition

How? Is it also a way to change the format?
Thanks,
L.A.

I've done it a while ago. Resizing is possible with GParted but not recommended. Resizing takes a lot of time and there's always the possibility of data loss.

You can't change the filesystem (not sure what you mean by format) of the existing partition, but you can resize your home partition to create swap space if you haven't already got a swap partition.

bcooksley wrote:As far as I am aware, it is not possible to resize partitions ( or more precisely, their file systems ). You will have to backup and reinstall, ensuring the desired partition scheme is chosen.

I'm don't know how to backup yet, but I'm adding a slave hdd, if I place a swap area on it ,will boot find it?

WAIT - you can create and mount a swap file in place of a swap partition
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linu ... dding.html