Moving Away from Wubi

[Ubun2to]

The live CD will find and use any existing swap partition... I don't think a normal install will do the same thing.

Also, it won't be set up for hibernation - you'll have to do that manually which is a (little bit of a) pain.

What was the error?

Anyway - with that much RAM you won't notice it at first. Once you've got everything working fine I can assist with your setup of the swap if you need help. Kind of curious though why it didn't work though!

Well, I'm out of the live CD now, so I can't post the error message.
I don't plan to do hibernation-I've heard it can be really unreliable. I'm currently using the tutorial on the SwapFaq page.
Edit: I found out how to utilize the swap space.
I was in GParted, right clicked on my swap space, and selected "Swapon."
I then went to terminal and typed in:

free -m

And, I got this:

                    total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:                7979       7261        717          0         35       1911
-/+ buffers/cache:  5314       2665
Swap:              16378          0      16378

So, my swap isn't being used at the moment, but it's nice to know it's there when I need it.

[bcbc]

You should add it to /etc/fstab so it's mounted automatically:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab-backup
echo "UUID=$(sudo blkid -o value -s UUID /dev/sda3)    none    swap    sw    0    0" | sudo tee --append /etc/fstab

Or you can manually edit it yourself. The above commands
1. backup the /etc/fstab file in case you make a mistake, and
2. append a line that adds your swap.
It will end up looking like this in /etc/fstab:
UUID=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx none swap sw 0 0
(where xxx-xxx is the UUID of /dev/sda3)

Breakdown of the command:
"echo" outputs a "" string to standard output (screen)
Inside that string "sudo blkid" extracts the UUID of your swap partition
"|" pipes the output to tee
"tee --append" will append the output to the end of the /etc/fstab file

The blkid command and the tee command require root privileges (hence the use of sudo)

[Ubun2to]

You should add it to /etc/fstab so it's mounted automatically:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab-backup
echo "UUID=$(sudo blkid -o value -s UUID /dev/sda3)    none    swap    sw    0    0" | sudo tee --append /etc/fstab

Or you can manually edit it yourself. The above commands
1. backup the /etc/fstab file in case you make a mistake, and
2. append a line that adds your swap.
It will end up looking like this in /etc/fstab:
UUID=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx none swap sw 0 0
(where xxx-xxx is the UUID of /dev/sda3)

Breakdown of the command:
"echo" outputs a "" string to standard output (screen)
Inside that string "sudo blkid" extracts the UUID of your swap partition
"|" pipes the output to tee
"tee --append" will append the output to the end of the /etc/fstab file

The blkid command and the tee command require root privileges (hence the use of sudo)

UUID=b3c81570-72f2-4425-9331-6309672e95b7    none    swap    sw    0    0

root@ubuntu:/home/administrator# free -m
                                           total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:                                 7979       7752        226          0        253       1528
-/+ buffers/cache:        5970       2008
Swap:                                         0          0          0

[bcbc]

To activate:

sudo swapon -a

Or when you reboot it gets pulled automatically from the /etc/fstab...

[Ubun2to]

To activate:

sudo swapon -a

Or when you reboot it gets pulled automatically from the /etc/fstab...

Thanks. The command worked.