>1) Your swap partition doesn't come up during the boot process, due to corruption. xosview will show if your swap is running. However, a missing swap partition will slow down all applications. Is Mozilla the only one effected.

I've had this problem since I upgraded the Mandrake 8.0 kernel, and it persisted into the SuSE install. I kept the partition, also I told SuSE to format it, but I guess my problem lies there.

[How] can I destroy and recreate that partition?