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I have an existing installation with a swap partition, and I want to boot a Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop LiveCD without using the swap partition. I want to avoid using the swap partition so that I can resize it and other partitions.

Liam
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If you're using an Ubuntu Live CD, you can disable the use of the swap partition trough the Partition Editor (GParted) by right-clicking the swap partition, and selecting swapoff.

This should allow to to resize the partition.

alexanderpas
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You can add noswap to the grub parameters to achieve this.

But it's usually easier to let the Live CD boot normally and then in a console type:

sudo swapoff device

Where device is the file or partition of the swap.

Javier Rivera
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If the live CD uses swap you can disable it with swapoff command. Swap is also not required to install Ubuntu, but recommended.

Paweł Nadolski
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I was wrong, and the Live CD does use an existing swap partition. There is no noswap cheat code listed (I tried the noswap cheat code anyway, but the swap was still used).

I'm stumped on how to prevent using swap at boot time, but for repartitioning purposes the other posters suggested how to turn the swap off.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ swapon -s
Filename    Type        Size     Used   Priority
/dev/sda5   partition   225272   0      -1
invert
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