Re: Can't tell if swap is allocated on new install of 11.10
Originally Posted by
ToshibaLaptoplinux
Just noticed something quirky.
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I suspect something went wrong during your installation. When I look at my HD using gparted, my swap partition shows up as a "linux-swap" filesystem. If yours isn't showing that as having that filesystem, then I suspect it wasn't properly formatted during the installation. I think you can correct that by selecting sda8 in gparted, and changing it's filesystem to become linux-swap.
That said, I think it would be smart of you to back up your data from sda9, then use part of that space to increase the size of your swap partition. (Back up your data from sda9, turn swap off, delete both sda8 & sda9, then re-create the partitions using new sizes to reallocate space from sda9 as part of sda8.) I've read that as a general rule, your swap partition size should be at least equal to your installed RAM for the sake of being able to put your system into Hibernation. By that rule, your swap partition should be at least 4GB. In my case, I allocated 3GB for a 2GB RAM machine - plenty of extra space, for the sake of program data that might be hanging around there before calling for Hibernation. Once you've finished, and are satisfied that your swap is properly allocated & in use, then you can reload your data back into sda9.
It's possible that your OS is running a swap file, instead of using a swap partition. That would explain the discrepancy between swap space reported as existing, and swap-formatted partition not showing up as such in gparted.
The limitation of swap partition expansion is probably because of the partition map recordkeeping overhead on the disk.
Hope this was helpful...
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