However, rebuildfstab reported an error. It was necessary to reboot in order to make rebuildfstab work. That step is not in the instructions.
I used cfdisk to make only one partition. No swap. Will it matter? The computer has 1GB RAM & 60 GB HD. Other than web browsing and text editing, the only resource consumptive thing I may do with it is Audacity audio recording.
I used gparted a month ago to do way more complex partitioning:
shrinking NTFS partition, copying it, creating a FAT32 partition, creating an extended partition, creating a reiserfs partition in part of size of extended.
Did rebuildfstab and haven't rebooted ever since, and all appears to be fine.
You could make a swapfile at any moment, when need arises.
You'd be surprised how easy it is to consume 1 gb of ram with firefox & flash
It's not that difficult with opera either
Text editing doesn't necessarily have to be resource consumptive; the only text editor i have so far ever used in TC (e3) uses 28Kb of RES memory starting with an empty file, in fact the least memory consuming Linux app i have ever seen.