Dave Lister
New Member
I have Puppy Linux installed on USB thumb drive. I partitioned the USB to have a FAT32 partition for PUPPY and a EXT4 partition for MYFILES. I anticipated the OS install would create its own linux swap partition or swapfile, but it didn't seem to. It might be using a swap partition on the internal HDD which has FreeBSD on it, but that drive doesn't appear to be mounted or even visible.
Anyway, the system sometimes chokes when browsing heavy websites and I hear the internal fan going nuts. I thought that adding a swap partition to the USB itself might help so I wanted to use Gparted to reduce the size of the partition I'd allocated to the PuPPy OS which was way too large at 10GB and create a linux swap partition.
I'm not sure if this can be done if I have booted from that PUPPY OS partition or if I'd need to move it to another system to do it unmounted, also I'm concerned I might seriously risk messing up my bootable USB if I try.
I would be grateful if someone could advise if this is fine to do and if so what precautions I might need to take so as not to mess things up.
Anyway, the system sometimes chokes when browsing heavy websites and I hear the internal fan going nuts. I thought that adding a swap partition to the USB itself might help so I wanted to use Gparted to reduce the size of the partition I'd allocated to the PuPPy OS which was way too large at 10GB and create a linux swap partition.
I'm not sure if this can be done if I have booted from that PUPPY OS partition or if I'd need to move it to another system to do it unmounted, also I'm concerned I might seriously risk messing up my bootable USB if I try.
I would be grateful if someone could advise if this is fine to do and if so what precautions I might need to take so as not to mess things up.