[lug] RedHat 7.1 Water Torture and SWAP size

[Hugh Brown]

anacron is my first guess.

They started tweaking some things in RH7.1 based on the assumption that the
system would be turned on and off (like a desktop) instead of on all the
time.  They setup anacron to take care of things that cron normally runs
during the wee hours.

as far as the swap, you can boot from a floppy, use fdisk to delete the
swap partition, resize it and then you will have a chunk free.  If you want
to incorporate that chunk elsewhere, you can try partition magic (no
guarantees), or you can re-install

Hugh

"Nate W"
> 
> My hard drive runs something about every 15 seconds ALL the time and it's
> driving me completely nuts.  I recently upgraded from 7.0 on my Dell Inspiron
> 7500 - the system didn't have this problem previously.  
> 
> I'd appreciate all ideas on what is causing it, if it's Really Important or not
> and how to stop/reschedule whatever it is.
> 
> Also, I made my SWAP file too big and need some of the space back - how to I go
> about resizing it without reinstalling?
> 
> Thanx!
> 
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