Installing swap in Mint Debian edition (Solved)

[madmedic]

First of all apologies. I have searched for an answer for this to no avail....and even though I used to do this frequently many years ago.....I have over time become de skilled


I have created two partitions on my system.

/dev/sda1 is my main partition for all things installed and is mounted as /. My second partition is /dev/sda2 ...... is 4g and is formated as linux swap.
I have no mount point for this. When I boot int o the system everything runs blisteringly fast, but when I check the processes using top......I am told that I have zero swap.

How do I make my system recognise the swap partition?

Many thanks.


Brian

[Oscar799]

I moved this here from Installation & Boot
Seemed like a better home for it
oscar799
Forum Admin

[seeley]

Hi Brian!
Please read this first: viewtopic.php?f=141&t=54927
Afterwards, if you have questions, post them!
seeley

[markcynt]

Add this line to /etc/fstab

/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0

Then reboot. Swap should now work.

[spsf64]

Easiest way... 1, 2, 3

1- Open gparted (menu/administration/gparted)
2- Select your swap partition and right click on it
3- Select "swapon" !!

To check; open terminal and type "free"

Hope it helps!

[pongo]

This looks like a bug in the installer. I ended up in the same (easily fixed for experienced folks) no swap situation in a two hard disk system with a swap space on each disk. You're used to installers just automatically recognizing and mounting already-existing swaps.

[flygon250]

Easiest way... 1, 2, 3

1- Open gparted (menu/administration/gparted)
2- Select your swap partition and right click on it
3- Select "swapon" !!

To check; open terminal and type "free"

Hope it helps!

I think that method only activates it for a single session, though. I know because I did it that way first after realizing I forgot to tell the installer to mount my existing swap partition which I had from a previous Linux install during my LMDE install.

When I started the computer again, however, I realized that the swap was turned off again thanks to the system monitor, so I edited the /etc/fstab file like marksynt said, changing the partition number to match the partition which had the swap and it was still mounted after I restarted.

So go with marksynt's advice. it might be a little more technical, but you only have to do it once and never worry about it again.

[madmedic]

Many thanks to everyone.

I went with Markcynt's solution and all is now perfect

Brian

[thermodynamics4]

Add this line to /etc/fstab

/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0

Then reboot. Swap should now work.

Worked for me, and is working after reboot, thanks! The swapon in Gparted only works in the session... I use virtual machines so it's important for me to have it always on...

[jackmule]

Easiest way... 1, 2, 3

1- Open gparted (menu/administration/gparted)
2- Select your swap partition and right click on it
3- Select "swapon" !!

To check; open terminal and type "free"

Hope it helps!

This worked for me. Thanks, it couldn't have been easier.

jackmule

[Emad78]

Add this line to /etc/fstab

/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0

Then reboot. Swap should now work.

This part worked perfect for me also. Thanks a bunch. I'm fully up and running!

Eli