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Can you please make step by step guide? I think it will help a lot of people, Thanks
Sure, will try my best.
First check to see if you have swap enabled or not by free command:
Then:
Open Gparted, it will ask for root password, Locate your drive, you will see a 16gb used space and a big not used at the end,
Right click on the unused partition and create new partition, Type : Swap make the size you want ( 1Gb to ...) and move it to the end of drive. Apply.
Then right clcik on the primary 16gb partition and resize/move , resize it to the desired (better to give it all). Apply
Now right click on the swap partition and get the info, copy the UUID
open /etc/fstab with
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab
You will see a line which refers to a swap partition during installation ...
Some thing similar to this :
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=cdba7b01-5ae6-4104-9a6e-f723b8bd87ac none swap sw 0 0
Now change the UUID with the one you copied from newly made swap partition.
save and close gedit.
now in your terminal type :
sudo swapon --all
It will read your fstab and enable the swap partition.
check it with free command in terminal
#free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 8171388 3020388 2637404 142044 2513596 4647472
Swap: 8123388 0 8123388
reboot and it should be all good
fullzero, do you mind putting this link in original post please, i bet it will be useful to lots of users; thanks