[CentOS] Upgrade ram and what to do with SWAP PARTITION ?

Wed Feb 13 20:07:25 UTC 2008
Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com>

Masters IT Gmail wrote:
> Now that I understand that i need more ram after i add this ram to my
> centos, what I need to do in order to increase my swap partition, thanks in
> advance.

How much swap do you currently have?
You may not need to increase swap at all.

If you do - I haven't tried this method in CentOS (or any OS) but it 
should work:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#head-75ffcb00cefe143fc380f84d7ea9203f16a596d0

It creates a swap file instead of a swap partition. Much easier than 
finding unpartitioned space ...