made swap too small

[Sesso]

It looks fine to me. You only have 2G of ram so it's ok. 

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> On Jul 15, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think I made my swap partition too small. It is only 2 gig. This is what free says:
> $ free
>                 total           used            free           shared    buffers      cached
> Mem:       1653812    1512472     141340      32440     156544     427816
> -/+ buffers/cache:     928112     725700
> Swap:      1638396          0    1638396
> 
> The only reason swap is at 0 usage is I just turned it back on ()I was trying to modify things with gparted. I think I am going to need to use gparted from a live disk.
>  
> Here is what I'm thinking:
> 
> first- here is what fdisk says: 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System 
> /dev/sda1   *           1        1530    12289693   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3            1530        6375    38917462   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            6375       30402   192996877    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            6375        6579     1638630   82  Linux swap
> /dev/sda6            6579       12953    51199155   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7           12953       23838    87433762   83  Linux
> /dev/sda8           23838       30402    52725330   83  Linux
> 
> Now I think I'll shrink sda8 and put the new swap in that newly created space. Afterwards I'll delete sda5 and grow sda6 to encompass the newly freed space.
> What do you think..... am I wasting my time?
> about 15 minutes after first running free it now says:
> 
>                 total              used     free    
> Swap:      1638396       1404    1636992
> 
> I only have two things running on my xfce desktop. the terminal emulator and chromium with three tabs open on it
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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