Increasing the swap partition

[James Trickel]

I am interested in increasing my swap partition. I would like to do this 
without having to reinstall so, I would like to do it right, by asking someone 
here for some __good__ advice.

Here is what my current layout looks like.

address@hidden parted]# ./parted /dev/hda
GNU Parted 1.4.18
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.


Using /dev/hda
Warning: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 4865/255/63.
Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.  You should check that this matches
the BIOS geometry before using this program.
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38166.679 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031     15.688  primary   ext2        boot
2         15.688  38162.219  extended              
5         15.719    149.040  logical   linux-swap  
6        149.071  38162.219  logical   ext2        

1=/boot
5=swap
6=/

I would like to increase the swap from 136M to at least 1G.

Any suggestions are welcomed as I am new to this tool and would prefer not to 
have to re-OS my box cause I forgot that one easy step.



James