Free swap partitions software for linux

Set::Partition is a Perl module that can enumerate all arrangements of a set in fixed subsets.

SYNOPSIS

use Set::Partition;

my $s = Set::Partition->new(
list => [qw(a b c d e)],
partition => [2, 3],
);
while (my $p = $s->next) {
print join( , map { "(@$_)" } @$p ), $/;
}
# produces
(a b) (c d e)
(a c) (b d e)
(a d) (b c e)
(a e) (b c d)
(b c) (a d e)
(b d) (a c e)
(b e) (a c d)
(c d) (a b e)
(c e) (a b d)
(d e) (a b c)

# or with a hash
my $s = Set::Partition->new(
list => { b => bat, c => cat, d => dog },
partition => [2, 1],
);
while (my $p = $s->next) {
...
}

Set::Partition takes a list or hash of elements and a list numbers that represent the sizes of the partitions into which the list of elements should be arranged.
The resulting object can then be used as an iterator which returns a reference to an array of lists, that represents the original list arranged according to the given partitioning. All possible arrangements are returned, and the object returns undef when the entire combination space has been exhausted.

Partition Image application is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file.
The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied on removable floppies (ZIP for example); partitions can be saved across the network since version 0.6.0.
Partition Image will only copy data from the used portions of the partition. For speed and efficiency, free blocks are not written to the image file.
This is unlike the dd command, which also copies empty blocks. Partition Image also works for large, very full partitions. For example, a full 1 GB partition can be compressed with gzip down to 400MB.
This is very useful to save partitions to an image in some cases:
- First you can restore your linux partition if there is a problem (virus, file system errors, manipulation error) . When you have a problem, you just have to restore the partition, and after 10 minutes, you have the original partition. You can write the image to a CD-R if you dont want the image to use hard-disk space.
- This utility can be used to install many identical PCs. For example, if you buy 50 PCs, with the same hardware, and you want to install the same linux systems on all 50 PCs, you will save a lot of time. Indeed, you just have to install on the first PC and create an image from it. For the 49 others, you can use the image file and Partition Images restore function.

The cryptoswap package supports building an encrypted swap partition when a system boots. This must be necessary on systems that use encrypted filesystems because plaintext secrets may be written to disk when memory is swapped to disk.
Cryptoswap.sh should be installed in /etc/init.d. During system boot, cryptoswap.sh should execute right before checkroot.sh. When shutting down, cryptoswap should execute after sysklogd.
This package also includes an initialization script for building loopback encrypted /tmp. This may be necessary if a system contains encrypted filesystems but / is not encrypted. A link from directories like /var/tmp to /tmp may be appropriate. There are a few other alternatives for systems such as these:
1. Tmpfs is a Linux kernel feature that allows /tmp to exist in memory. This is a good solution for systems with a lot of memory and/or (encrypted) swap.
2. If you have a system that uses encrypted home directories, per-user temporary directories inside $HOME could be used. This would ensure that users data is protected but would require that all applications use $HOME/tmp instead of /tmp.
Finally, the project may be used to create an encrypted root filesystem. Doing so requires two special partitions. First, create a small partition to hold your kernel and initrd image, /dev/hdaX. Second create a large partition to contain the root of your filesystem, /dev/hdaY.
Next configure and install an initrd-based boot system:
1. Ensure romfs is compiled in your kernel (not a module).
2. Create a kernel-supported filesystem on /dev/hdaX and copy your kernel to /vmlinux.
3. Download busybox and extract it as initrd/busybox.
4. Update initrd/src/etc/modules.initrd to include any modules needed to boot.
5. Build cryptoswaps initrd image (cd initrd && make initrd) and copy it to the filesystem on /dev/hdaX at /initrd.img.gz.
6. Make sure you use literal = "root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc rw" or LILO equivalent.
Finally, create a proper encrypted filesystem on /dev/hdaY:
1. Randomize the partition: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hdaY.
2. Set up a loopback device: openssl enc -d -aes-256-ecb -in initrd/src/etc/efsk | losetup -p0 -e aes /dev/loop0 /dev/hdaY.
3. Create the root filesystem: mkfs.ext2 /dev/loop0.
4. Mount your new root filesystem: mount /dev/loop0 .
5. Populate your new root filesystem.
Enhancements:
- Added initrd build environment.
- Documentation update.

GNU Parted is a program for creating, resizing, destroying, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, copying data between hard disks and disk imaging.
Supported disk labels: raw access (useful for RAID and LVM), MS-DOS partition tables, Intel GPT partition tables, MIPS partition tables, PC98 partition tables, Sun and BSD disk labels and Macintosh partition maps.
Notes:
- For ext2, ext3 and reiserfs: the start of the partition must stay fixed.
- For ext2, ext3: the partition you copy to must be bigger or exactly the same size as the partition you copy from.
- For ext2 and ext3: the checking is limited to ensuring the resize and copy commands will be ok.
- For fat: the size of the new partition after resizing or copying is restricted by the cluster size. Parted can shrink the cluster size, so you can always shrink your partition. However, if you cant use FAT32 for some reason, you may not be able to grow your partition.
- Parted supports both FAT16 and FAT32. Parted can convert file systems between FAT16 and FAT32, if necessary.
- Reiserfs support is enabled if you install libreiserfs.