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I am playing round with swap space and just created a new machine and purposely left 700Mb free on the hard drive.
After the machine starts I cannot find anyway to 'see' this free 700Mb on the disk.
df doesn't show it, fdisk doesn't show it.
How do I partition this 'phantom' 700Mb as swap?
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(Only playing on a test system)
Also... fdisk. Never got my head round it.
I have two partitions sda1 and sda2. sda1 was boot and sda2 was lvm.
So I deleted sda2 and repartitioned it.
Saved the changes, rebooted and then the system failed to boot.
How on earth do you repartition a system which is live?
(The answer I'm guessing is using LVM)
Can you use an LVM portion as swap?
Seems yes.
After the machine starts I cannot find anyway to 'see' this free 700Mb on the disk.
df doesn't show it, fdisk doesn't show it.
How do I partition this 'phantom' 700Mb as swap?
---
(Only playing on a test system)
Also... fdisk. Never got my head round it.
I have two partitions sda1 and sda2. sda1 was boot and sda2 was lvm.
So I deleted sda2 and repartitioned it.
Saved the changes, rebooted and then the system failed to boot.
How on earth do you repartition a system which is live?
(The answer I'm guessing is using LVM)
Can you use an LVM portion as swap?
Seems yes.
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