Hi,

I have recently installed Fedora 8, i386 on my Acer Aspire 5500 Laptop, Pentium M. I was orinaly using windows o this machine. Change partitions using QTparted (Knoppix). I made disk space free for Linux installation (around 8Gb). And during installation process i used the option "use the free space and creat default partions" for creaing the partitions. Rather then showing /dev/hda6 (because my windows last partition was hda5) it is showing /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 in my /etc/fstab file. however /boot is mount on/dev/sda6. What is this /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 ? why such a name. Also installer has given 2GB of space to swap. For my work i dont need any swap space. How i can change that to my root disk space.
Thank in advance.

Manish

Edit /etc/fstab and comment out the entry for the swap partition by placing a # in column 1 of the swap line. Turn swap off with the swapoff command:

swapoff

Then use fdisk to remove the swap partition thus turning it into free space. Then you can rearrange your partitions to give your root partition more space.

You are using logical partitions. Probably during the Fedora install you asked to use logical partitioning. Logical partitioning may be the default in a Fedora install. I can't remember whether it is or isn't.

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Steve Stites

Thanks for the reply.

I am not able to delete the swap partition.
As my swap partition was /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
i did
fdisk /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
here is the output
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xc3e0a65f.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.

Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)

then if i try to say 'd'

Command (m for help): d
No partition is defined yet!

i am getting above message.

So, how i can remove this partition.

Thanks again.

The default install creates two partitions. The 1st is your boot partition and the 2nd is a LVM which contains everything else i.e. / and swap. You need to use the LVM tools to remove swap instead of fdisk.

In a nutshell LVM lets you expand and or reallocate storage space without repartitioning.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...-removing.html

Thank you for the reply.
So, i have removed the swap partition /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01.
However still that space in not available for use.
Also during booting i am getting the message
'unable to access resume device /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01'
Then how i can add the deleted swap space to my rest of the space,
means to my /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 which is mounted to my "/" folder.

FYI if you want put your laptop in standby mode then you will need a swap partition.

You need to extend your / volume and then resize the filesystem. ext2online is able to resize a mounted partition. Without it you will need to dol this via the rescue CD.