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Adding swap partition after system installation

Somehow I loaded 12.04 onto my netbook with no swap partition and I've tried to make a new one.

It's on a separate partition from the boot partition and I haven't found a way to have it recognized yet. I don't understand the code I've read online and hope there's a program with a GUI that can help me with this.

If not, can anyone explain to me how I can have a swapspace on this netbook

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Not positive about this, but I think this is right:

Now that you have the partition, let's assume it's /dev/hdb1

Let's make it a swap: mkswap /dev/hdb1

Now let's activate it: swapon /dev/hdb1

Let's update our fstab file to make it activate on boot: gksu gedit /etc/fstab

add this line: /dev/hdb1 none swap sw 0 0

I THINK that should work, and the community will correct me where I went wrong. Good luck!

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  • i tried but it denied me permission. groan. – newboldrob Jun 08 '12 at 03:56
  • Did you try sudo? Where exactly are you getting the permission error? – Matt2 Jun 08 '12 at 03:59
  • I just did. newb - oldrob.

    I now have a ridiculously large swap partition (9.8 GB) and it's recognized in the system monitor as active. none of it's being used yet but it's there if I the system needs it.

     – newboldrob Jun 08 '12 at 04:53