De-activate a swap partition - I don't believe it!
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sun Mar 19 20:33:22 UTC 2006
On Sunday 19 March 2006 19:52, Craig McLean wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I want to reorganise partitions on hdb - combining some, to make fewer,
> > larger partitions. gparted says that I can't do that, because hdb11 is
> > being used as a swap partition. I do have a swap on hda, so could easily
> > manage wihout it temporarily. Is there any way to do that without
> > rebooting? I removed it from fstab and did 'mount -a', but that doesn't
> > solve the problem. I think I'm right in saying that it is not mounted,
> > in a conventional sense, so I don't know how to proceed.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Anne,
> Check the manpages for swapon/swapoff..
>
I used gparted to delete a couple of partitions and create a new one, then
created a new one at the end, in some unallocated space. Everything looked
fine, and it started the final scan - the whole disk is marked Unallocated,
and fdisk -l doesn't see anything. Tomorrow I'll try testdisk to see whether
it is recoverable, but if fdisk can't see it I'm not hopeful.
Anne
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