How to increase swap size when there is already a partition existing [duplicate]
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~$ sudo swapon --show gives me this
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/sda5 partition 976M 0B -2
I want to increase my swap size. Is there a way to increase this or do I have to create a new partition or a file? I have gparted installed and I see that there are only 2 partitions as lsblk shows below -
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
sda 8:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
├─sda5 8:5 0 976M 0 part [SWAP]
└─sda1 8:1 0 237.5G 0 part /
How do I go about increasing the size?
16.04 partitioning gparted swap
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How to increase swap space?
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~$ sudo swapon --show gives me this
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/sda5 partition 976M 0B -2
I want to increase my swap size. Is there a way to increase this or do I have to create a new partition or a file? I have gparted installed and I see that there are only 2 partitions as lsblk shows below -
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
sda 8:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
├─sda5 8:5 0 976M 0 part [SWAP]
└─sda1 8:1 0 237.5G 0 part /
How do I go about increasing the size?
16.04 partitioning gparted swap
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Just an observation, not a answer, but if you're actually using that much swap space then your performance is going to be terrible. I'd strongly suggest increasing the amount of physical memory in the system.
– Doug O'Neal
Dec 18 at 23:21
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How to increase swap space?
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~$ sudo swapon --show gives me this
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/sda5 partition 976M 0B -2
I want to increase my swap size. Is there a way to increase this or do I have to create a new partition or a file? I have gparted installed and I see that there are only 2 partitions as lsblk shows below -
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
sda 8:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
├─sda5 8:5 0 976M 0 part [SWAP]
└─sda1 8:1 0 237.5G 0 part /
How do I go about increasing the size?
16.04 partitioning gparted swap
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How to increase swap space?
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~$ sudo swapon --show gives me this
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/sda5 partition 976M 0B -2
I want to increase my swap size. Is there a way to increase this or do I have to create a new partition or a file? I have gparted installed and I see that there are only 2 partitions as lsblk shows below -
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
sda 8:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
├─sda5 8:5 0 976M 0 part [SWAP]
└─sda1 8:1 0 237.5G 0 part /
How do I go about increasing the size?
This question already has an answer here:
How to increase swap space?
5 answers
16.04 partitioning gparted swap
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marked as duplicate by user68186, pomsky, Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, Fabby, guiverc Dec 18 at 23:54
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Just an observation, not a answer, but if you're actually using that much swap space then your performance is going to be terrible. I'd strongly suggest increasing the amount of physical memory in the system.
– Doug O'Neal
Dec 18 at 23:21
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Just an observation, not a answer, but if you're actually using that much swap space then your performance is going to be terrible. I'd strongly suggest increasing the amount of physical memory in the system.
– Doug O'Neal
Dec 18 at 23:21
Just an observation, not a answer, but if you're actually using that much swap space then your performance is going to be terrible. I'd strongly suggest increasing the amount of physical memory in the system.
– Doug O'Neal
Dec 18 at 23:21
Just an observation, not a answer, but if you're actually using that much swap space then your performance is going to be terrible. I'd strongly suggest increasing the amount of physical memory in the system.
– Doug O'Neal
Dec 18 at 23:21
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If you don't want to re-partition you can use a swap file. It works like it does on Windows. Instead of specifying a partition name in your fstab, you specify a file, say, in your root partition.
You will need to initialise the file simply by creating a file containing zeros of your desired size, and make it readable only by root. Also (I can't remember if this is necessary) format it with:
sudo mkswap /myswapfile
Here are some full instructions:
https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/create-a-linux-swap-file/
(It's strange they chose to put it in /mnt, that's not what /mnt is)
You can use the swap file in addition to your existing swap partition, and there should not be a performance hit. You can even specify a priority in your fstab for what order they should be used, which is for when some of your swap is on a faster device, but that's not really relevant here.
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If you don't want to re-partition you can use a swap file. It works like it does on Windows. Instead of specifying a partition name in your fstab, you specify a file, say, in your root partition.
You will need to initialise the file simply by creating a file containing zeros of your desired size, and make it readable only by root. Also (I can't remember if this is necessary) format it with:
sudo mkswap /myswapfile
Here are some full instructions:
https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/create-a-linux-swap-file/
(It's strange they chose to put it in /mnt, that's not what /mnt is)
You can use the swap file in addition to your existing swap partition, and there should not be a performance hit. You can even specify a priority in your fstab for what order they should be used, which is for when some of your swap is on a faster device, but that's not really relevant here.
answered Dec 18 at 22:13
thomasrutter
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If you don't want to re-partition you can use a swap file. It works like it does on Windows. Instead of specifying a partition name in your fstab, you specify a file, say, in your root partition.
You will need to initialise the file simply by creating a file containing zeros of your desired size, and make it readable only by root. Also (I can't remember if this is necessary) format it with:
sudo mkswap /myswapfile
Here are some full instructions:
https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/create-a-linux-swap-file/
(It's strange they chose to put it in /mnt, that's not what /mnt is)
You can use the swap file in addition to your existing swap partition, and there should not be a performance hit. You can even specify a priority in your fstab for what order they should be used, which is for when some of your swap is on a faster device, but that's not really relevant here.
answered Dec 18 at 22:13
thomasrutter
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If you don't want to re-partition you can use a swap file. It works like it does on Windows. Instead of specifying a partition name in your fstab, you specify a file, say, in your root partition.
You will need to initialise the file simply by creating a file containing zeros of your desired size, and make it readable only by root. Also (I can't remember if this is necessary) format it with:
sudo mkswap /myswapfile
Here are some full instructions:
https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/create-a-linux-swap-file/
(It's strange they chose to put it in /mnt, that's not what /mnt is)
You can use the swap file in addition to your existing swap partition, and there should not be a performance hit. You can even specify a priority in your fstab for what order they should be used, which is for when some of your swap is on a faster device, but that's not really relevant here.
answered Dec 18 at 22:13
thomasrutter
26.4k46389
If you don't want to re-partition you can use a swap file. It works like it does on Windows. Instead of specifying a partition name in your fstab, you specify a file, say, in your root partition.
You will need to initialise the file simply by creating a file containing zeros of your desired size, and make it readable only by root. Also (I can't remember if this is necessary) format it with:
sudo mkswap /myswapfile
Here are some full instructions:
https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/create-a-linux-swap-file/
(It's strange they chose to put it in /mnt, that's not what /mnt is)
You can use the swap file in addition to your existing swap partition, and there should not be a performance hit. You can even specify a priority in your fstab for what order they should be used, which is for when some of your swap is on a faster device, but that's not really relevant here.
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Just an observation, not a answer, but if you're actually using that much swap space then your performance is going to be terrible. I'd strongly suggest increasing the amount of physical memory in the system.
– Doug O'Neal
Dec 18 at 23:21