Memory upgrade and swap partition size

[Mark Komarinski]

Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> Suggestion: you might not have needed to re-install. If you had
> created an extra swapfile with "mkswap" and then utilized it with
> "swapon", you could have experimented with a larger amount of
> swap-space without having to re-partition/re-install.
>
> Hope this is useful info,
>   
If you use LVM (everyone should!) you can just swapoff, resize the swap
partition in LVM, then mkswap and swapon.

-Mark