On 2/26/25 13:17, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Arg. the Install did not default a swap partition so I forgot to work it in when I divided the drive as I wanted...
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Since /dev/sdb4, /home is the last 800Gb with 500Gb unused, is there any way to safely shrink this partition 16Gb and then allocate that as swap?
It's been years since I did this but if you're game...
umount /dev/sda4
resize2fs (current size -8G) /dev/sda4
fdisk /dev/sda
delete sda4 new partition sda4 (previous size -8G) w(rite) q(uit)
** this works because deleting a partition doesn't touch the data, only the partition table. When you create the new, smaller smaller partition it will use the same blocks that contain the original resized filesystem.
Now create /dev/sda5 8G type swap.
Caveat: back up /home! use at your own risk! YMMV! This email is not from me!
Mike Wright