how to assign swap

[murderd2death]

ive been tryng to assign a swap partition for ubuntu. i have made the partition with a ive puppy linux cd. i cannot find any instructions that will explain to me how to assign that partition as my swap from ubuntu. i am sure this has been explained but any time i do a search on this site i get several irrelevant topics because swap is a very hot keyword for linux. please help.

regards.

[haqking]

ive been tryng to assign a swap partition for ubuntu. i have made the partition with a ive puppy linux cd. i cannot find any instructions that will explain to me how to assign that partition as my swap from ubuntu. i am sure this has been explained but any time i do a search on this site i get several irrelevant topics because swap is a very hot keyword for linux. please help.

regards.

create the partition and choose swap as the filesystem. it should automatically mount is as /swap.

however it depends on your system and memory as to whether you need it.

You may want to look at a swapfile instead https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

[iceguy]

There are a few steps that you need to follow.
1. select the drive to partition it: sudo fdisk /dev/ydx where "y" could be an "h" for IDE hdd or "s" for sata/scsi/sas drives
check the menu that the fdisk gives you, make sure to backup you data before doing any changes, and make a simple patition and change the partition ID to number 82
2. command to chose the specific part as as swap fs: sudo mkswap /dev/sda1
3. command to activate it: sudo swapon /dev/sda1
4.command to verify if you have a swap part is: swapon -s
That's it.

[Lisiano]

... or use GParted ("sudo apt-get install gparted" or use synaptic/Ubuntu software center to install it) and format the partition intended as swap. It should get mounted on every boot this way too.

[murderd2death]

create the partition and choose swap as the filesystem. it should automatically mount is as /swap.

however it depends on your system and memory as to whether you need it.

You may want to look at a swapfile instead https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

i accidentally formatted it as ext 4 instead of linux swap. solved it. thank you

[Elfy]

add it to fstab, get it's UUID

sudo blkid |grep swap

make note of the UUID

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

something like

UUID=longnumberfromblkid  none  swap  sw  0     0

save and close gedit, you can

sudo swapon -a

if necessary


https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab#Examples

[haqking]

i accidentally formatted it as ext 4 instead of linux swap. solved it. thank you

no problems you are very welcome,

Peace

[papu40000]

add it to fstab, get it's UUID

sudo blkid |grep swap

make note of the UUID

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

something like

UUID=longnumberfromblkid  none  swap  sw  0     0

save and close gedit, you can

sudo swapon -a

if necessary


https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab#Examples

Really thanks for this tips !!