how to increase swap space.............

[nagendra]

i have installed suse9.1 in to the system................
intially i hve alloted 500mb swap space.............
since i want install oracle whch require 1gb swap space how to increase existing swap space without reinstalling it...................

[genesus]

How are your current partitions laid out?

You may be able to resize on of the partitions that is next to the swap partition. If you do this, then you will have your 500mb swap by your whatever-value empty space. Then simply delete your swap partition in cfdisk and remake your swap partition. Then mkswap /dev/hdxx.

Some file systems are not resizeable though, check out parted, which does wonders.