> I'm going to have to resize a partition (shrink it) to make room for > more swap space. This is actually not too big of a deal, since we're > not talking about a "system" partition (/, /var, /usr, etc), but one > where an application resides. So I won't even have to go to "rescue" > mode to do this. I can umount this thing live. (and since I'm working > on it remotely, that's important). > > But this system was not configured with LVM. So it occurs to me, that > in dealing with a non-LVM partition(s), if the swap space I want to > enlarge isn't next to the partition I shrink, my options would be to: > > 1. Manually "move" the other partitions, probably very risky > > 2. Simply make a second swap space that's next to the partition I > shrink. > > Have I got the right idea? > === Al You could also create a swap file and put it in the partition you would be shrinking and use that instead of repartitioning. Barry