LMDE installed and running but no swap

[nullmodem]

I got Linux Mint Debian (201012) installed on one system.
LMDE is running along.
The hard disk has 2 partitions. The ext4 root partition and an extented partition.
But LMDE does not see the 1 Gb swap partition in the extended partition.
The system has 3Gb of RAM so swap is not really a problem, yet.

How do I make LMDE start using this swap partition at boot time?

[seeley]

Hi!
1. If you don't use "suspend to disk" maybe you don't need swap.
2. Normally in Linux you can activate swap once with - as root I suppose -
"swapon" (but I don't tried it on LMDE)
If you always want to use swap, you have to edit /etc/fstab and add swap.
3. Your swap is not big enough.
Experts are saying (a year or more ago)
a) for a 32 bit computer 2 GB is the maximum
b) swap = 1.5 * ram [GB]
seeley

Edit:
See

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man swapon

[seeley]

Hi!
I) Some references, if you decide to enlarge swap:
You can enlarge a partition with gparted (the best partition editor I know).
Here are 2 examples (end of /etc/fstab):
an old one: "/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0"
a newer: "UUID=8883dbc8-80f8-49b8-8c5f-13a32baefe98 none swap sw 0 0"
You can find out the UUID with - as root -

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blkid

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ls -Al /dev/disk/by-uuid

"none"-> no mount point for swap necessary
"sw" ->file system
"0" dump: no back up
"0" pass: no check
II) As I have hardware issues and writing a HOWTO, could you please help be answering the questions:
a, Did you prepare your hard disk (partitioning)?
b, You have a primary partition (ext4) as root and an extended partition with the only logical partition sda5 = swap?
c, Did the installer print any question concerning swap?
seeley