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Re: Re: Problem with Swap Partition

>On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Daniel Parks wrote:
>>On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Markus Hitter wrote:
>> <snip>
>> The big advantage of pdisk is, you can modify/delete/create single
>> partitions without touching the other ones on this disk.
>>
>Heh. With pdisk, you can even resize a partition you're using! Of course,
>it's always better to make sure that data doesn't get chopped in half
>first...

Which means I can defragment my hfs+ partition and resize it with
pdisk???
And then, after rebooting, create a ufs partition with the rest of the
space
(with pdisk) and format it with /sbin/newfs /dev/disk0sxyz??? How safe
is it?
I have never done that with Linux' fdisk (x86) because I never had any
reason
to do so but right now I could really maker use of this.

>
>pdisk is a great partitioning tool. It would be nice if it had formatting
>capabilities built in, but OTOH it's really usefull without them.

It sounds as if a combination of pdisk and newfs does the trick ...
That's
new to me altho I figured that there gotta be other tools than the
graphical
ones provided by Apple.

>
>> To put an actual Filsystem onto this new/modified partition, you can use
>> /sbin/newfs for UFS partitions or /sbin/newfs_hfs for HFS ones. This is
>> the same as Finder's "Erase Volume". Well, couldn't find this menu in OS
>> X, but OS 9 features it.
>>
>> > [...] So, to make a swapfile partition, you have to format it HFS.
>>
>> Made one with an UFS an it works excellent.
>>
>Bleh! My brain froze up. I was trying to say that you needed to actually
>format the partition to use it for swapfiles. The HFS bit just sort of
>slipped out..



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