Expand Linux swap space

[Bertram Moshier]

Hello,

 

I have a Red Hat Enterprise 4 system as shipped by Dell on a 390 system with
8GB of RAM.  Presently, the Linux swap space is at 1.9GB (as shipped).  I'd
like to resize this to 24 GB (expanding it by about 22 GB).

 

When I use parted, it of course fails because the partitions are in use by
the Linux system.

 

Are there instructions available to resize the Linux swap space on a system
as shipped by Dell?

 

Side note of another gotcha that might come up . . . I tried to resize an
ext3 unmounted partition but got the error saying the file system was using
an unknown flag.  Thing is I formatted the drive using mkfs.ext3 on the same
system.  I'd think parted and mkfs.ext3 would know about all file system
flags.

 

Bert.

 

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