Best way to move a LL partition?

[paul1149]

Ok, I'm back on the problem machine. Even logged into Imgur I have no ability to correct the earlier links, but thanks for going there and reviewing them.

Sharp eye regarding that TYPE="swsuspend". That wasn't like that earlier. I think attempting to Suspend and Hibernate may have rewritten the fstab line temporarily. Both attempts failed, btw, and the machine shut down cold.

So I just got here, and my friend had booted up, and it looks like everything's actually working! I opened Slimjet, Gimp with a pic, and ran a large macro in LO, and the swap went to 28MB. Seems low (Pentium 4 Processor, 2GB RAM), but I've never had much swap action in linux. I was thinking about this last eve, and had come up with the basic strategy you have outlined, but if this holds I guess there's no need.

Pic should follow. Thanks much for your input. I will look into adjusting the "swapability" parameter, to make more use of the swap function.

BW,
Paul

[paul1149]

Actually, now it's up to 331MB, which is nice to see.

[LL-user]

Hi Paul,

That's good news you got it working!

All the best

PS: I was actually scratching my had to see that type considering that I only could read you had rebooted the machine. Next time I'll better ask

[paul1149]

Yeah, seems to be fine. I wonder if it's better to just reinstall though, though dealing with the problem was a learning experience.

I'm just guessing at that fstab "TYPE" rewrite. Maybe it's what flags Swap to act like Hiberfil in Windows. I'm pretty new to Linux.

IAC it's working quite well. Thanks again for your help.

Be Well,
Paul

[LL-user]

Hi Paul,

I see no reason why you should reinstall your system in terms of stability etc. Except you want to run it as an exercise

To my understanding that "TYPE" rewrite is connected with the suspend/hibernate process.
Am sure you're aware of the difference between suspend and hibernate. If you've the hibernate option (am currently not running LL3.0 and it might be also hardware dependent) then of course you need a big enough swap partition to make it work.

All the best

[paul1149]

The only reason I wondered about that is that the install is not as fast booting up as I thought it would be. Moving it to the front of the drive should have brought big advantages, but subjectively, I'm not seeing them. But short of doing a comparison, it's just a feeling.

That would be a confirmation regarding the TYPE rewrite. The machine I think can handle hibernation, so I'm not sure why it failed. But I didn't want to explore the problem at this point!

BW.