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newboldrob
Asked: 2012-06-07 17:58:27 +0800 CST

New SWAP partition: help to recognize? [duplicate]

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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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  1. 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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