On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Steven Rubenstein wrote: > Yeah, but changes through fdisk on a mounted volume don't take effect > until reboot, no? (Swap space can certainly be enabled while mounted.) > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > official RHL customization guide, "adding swap space", reads > >in part, to add a swap partition: > > > > "The hard drive can not be in use (partitions can not be > >mounted, and swap space can not be enabled). The easiest > >way to achieve this it [sic] to boot your system in [sic] > >rescue mode." > > > > say what? i've numerous times added a swap partition to > >a running system with a combination of fdisk/mkswap/swapon. > >has this changed? oh, cripes, of course you're right there. but the docs are still misleading since rescue mode is still not required here, just a reboot after using fdisk. so the explanation is still a little misleading at best. rday
