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Recently I added a new 40GB hard drive as swap. I want the swap to be enabled when the computer logs me in. I followed the directions here to make the swap command run on start up.

I added swaps.desktop to /etc/xdg/autostart/ as well as to /usr/share/applications/. Inside swaps.desktop is this:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Swap Drive Autostart
Exec=swapon -p 32767 /dev/sda5
Type=Application
Terminal=false

I am sure that the command shown (swapon -p 32767 /dev/sda5) works on its own, but when I restarted the computer, the swap was not enabled.

Then I made the file supposedly able to be run as myself (using this) because the file was not being run at start up:

sudo chown root:root /etc/xdg/autostart/
sudo chmod 700 /etc/xdg/autostart/

sudo chown root:root /usr/share/applications/
sudo chmod 700 /usr/share/applications/

I also did sudo visudo and added the lines:

administrator  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /etc/xdg/autostart/swaps.desktop
administrator  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/share/applications/swaps.desktop

whoami says that I am administrator.

End result: When I try to run either swaps.desktop file on their own, I get Error: Permission denied. But when I run the file with "Open Current Folder as Root", it runs flawlessly and my swap space shows up in cat /proc/swaps.

What am I doing wrong, and how do I make this work correctly so that the swap is enabled whenever I log in?

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You need to add the fstab entry in /etc/fstab

It needs to be mentioned with your UUID

Here is my example of fstab entry 

# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=c44126db-1f07-4dfa-a836-e478fecdd8d0 none            swap    sw              0       0

This is my swap entry which was Automatically created and u need to enter the value as show here

If you need to know the UUID of your drive, run the command 

#blkid /dev/yourdrive

Then you will get the value like this:

/dev/sda5: UUID="c44126db-1f07-4dfa-a836-e478fecdd8d0" TYPE="swap"

See how i have run it in my PC :

root@system99:/home/sysadmin# blkid /dev/sda5 
/dev/sda5: UUID="c44126db-1f07-4dfa-a836-e478fecdd8d0" TYPE="swap"
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