CrunchBang Linux

tux_drummer

Member

Registered: 2012-11-23

Posts: 35

How to activate swap

I installed crunchbang without making a swap partition. I then booted to live and used gparted to make a swap but it's not declared on fstab. How do I make the swap partition to show up?

dura

Bloated Gimp

From: interzone

Registered: 2012-09-15

Posts: 2,107

Re: How to activate swap

Edit: Ignore me

Write an fstab. This should help:

http://wiki.debian.org/fstab

Add the swap line, using correct id, and auto mount at boot.

Reboot.

Last edited by dura (2012-11-24 14:53:23)

el_koraco

#!/loony/bun

From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,749

Re: How to activate swap

The system will use swap if it exists, it doesn't need to be declared in fstab. Run free -m and see if the last row shows swap.

wavic

Member

Registered: 2013-01-03

Posts: 10

Re: How to activate swap

swap on

fatmac

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2012-11-14

Posts: 1,948

Re: How to activate swap

If you want it in fstab, add a line similar to the following :-

# swap was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=6ea3d80e-3b04-4af3-9f36-e6a7f5065671 none            swap    sw

OR
/dev/sda1        none      swap     sw

Last edited by fatmac (2013-01-03 19:43:05)

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