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I need to increase swap space [duplicate]

I used the Windows installer to install Ubuntu. It did not ask me the size of swap. I am currently using Ubuntu and have only about 200 MB and my system crashes when I open too many applications.
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Mounting a pendrive as a swap partition, having problems

The building of one of the softwares I am installing is failing because of the error c++: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1plus) I think this is because I have only 500Mb swap ...
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Do we still need swap partitions on desktop?

I have read this question, but it was asked in the context of servers not desktops or notebooks. If a good amount of RAM is installed on a notebook, say 8 GB, do we still need a swap space?
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Is swap enabled on this server? should it be?

We have a sysadmin configure a couple of servers at digitalocean. To me, it looks like swap wasn't enabled on this but it's been a VERY long time since I've had to do things like this. It's a rails ...
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Can't enlarge swap drive

Running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Toshiba Netbook. Netbook has like .8 gigs of Ram so I'm trying to offset the crappy ram amount with a larger swap drive. Tried to do it from a pretty detailed tutorial, was ...
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Linux: how swap is reported by free/top. How to determine correctly swap usage by process

Can somebody please explain how swap is reported in Linux? I'm asking this because free and top commands reports some swap used that cannot be found in /proc/$PID/status. grep --color VmSwap ...
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I broke hibernate when I set two distros to use the same swap space

I use Ubuntu as my primary OS, but I have also installed Fedora to see what all the hype is about. I made the stupid decision of making them share swap space, not thinking of the consequences on ...
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Ubuntu DualBoot Installation Process - Resizing Partition

I decided to have Ubuntu to dualboot with Win7. I have read couple of guides, and it seems that I still can't get this right. ATM I have my laptop running the Ubuntu CD, I picked in installation type ...
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Swap bug 100% Increase with two apps running?

Newly installed operating system, nothing download except updates. Firefox currently downloading one file. SWAP at 0% Then I open up Ubuntu software center.. Swap starts rising slowly and slowly . ...
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I deleted swap partition, what more I should do?

Well I deleted my swap partition using gparted just because I needed one more primary partition and the swap was the 4th, that is the maximum number of primary partitions. I think I don't need it ...
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PC is not detecting any boot drive. How to fix this?

I used gparted to shrink the swap space and add it to the drive that had Ubuntu installed in it from Live boot. After doing so, I restarted the computer and then found a black screen saying just this: ...
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Messed up swap on clean install of Xubuntu 12.10

I did a clean install 32 bit Xubuntu using manual partitioning on 1TB drive. The swap partition is missing and the large lvm size cannot be changed using gparted. I want to reduce the size in order ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04 lts installation error

I`m trying to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 lts from usb stick. When is the partition section in installation I choose use whole disk or something like that... Then comes an error that says swap volume ...
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Dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04, facing partition issues

I have just bought a new PC having Windows 7 installed, it has 500 GB disk space. Attached is the screen shot of the disk management C:-Installed Windows 97.5 GB D:- Kept required data 195.31 GB ...
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Swap never used. Should I delete it? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Importance of Swap Partition I have an extended partition with 32GB assigned, 4.3GB goes to swap and the rest is formated as ext4. From time to time I open the system ...
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Change Swap Amount to Hibernate in WUBI [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I enable hibernation on Wubi? I would like to hibernate when I get critical battery, I could do this in Windows, but the option is disabled in Ubuntu. I ...
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Boot-Repair after messing up NTFS partition

I posted this question explaining what happened after I tried to create a new swap partition on a Win/Ubuntu dual-boot machine. I have since created a live-boot USB and installed Boot-Repair. I had it ...
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Open Ubuntu 'Disks' in sudo mode?

I have the annoying problem with 12.10 that it lists the extended partition containing my SWAP in nautilus (labeled "Ubuntu 12.10 i386"), so I want to open up disks to check off the 'Show in User ...
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Activate swap by default

I installed Ubuntu 11.04 Natty and I set a partition for swap about 900 MB. Afterthat, I installed Kubuntu 12.10 Quantal, repartitioned my hard disk so I had 2048 MB swap (replaced 900 MB swap ...
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GParted 'NTFS signature missing' when creating new swap partition [closed]

I followed the instructions in this thread to create a new swap partition post-installation. My /var/tmp/fstab file currently has the following in it: /host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk none swap ...
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swap area provided during installation then converted it to ntfs, any problem? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is it safe to turn swap off permanently? In my PC there is two OS, windows7 and Ubuntu . I installed Ubuntu after the installation of Windows 7. During installation i ...
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Nautilus trying to mount SWAP?

In my nautilus, I have this annoying drive labeled "Ubuntu 12.10 i386" and when you click on it, it gives the 'cannot mount' error. With a little GParted research, I found out that its the Extended ...
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No swap after moving/resizing partitions

I recently did a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 andpurposly got rid of my windows partition and my original swap partition in the process. Now my system won't see any swap space. My partition table is ...
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How to restore a partition that has been accidentally converted to a swap area

I was trying to install ubuntu manually from my external hard drive(which has ubuntu installed in it) to my internal hard drive.I created the swap area using mkswap command in a wrong partition(my ...
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Help understanding my hard drive / partitioning situation… Pictures Included! :) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Sharing swap space between Windows and Ubuntu Triple Boot: Windows 7, Ubuntu, and Debian So I have installed windows 7, and two different distros of linux... I have ...
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How do I restore a swap partition I accidentally deleted?

I accidentally deleted my swap partition via gparted. (I'm still logged in the system so restoring should be easier) Can someone help me please? I'm not sure how to configure it because the Ubuntu ...
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Disk '______' doesn't contain a valid partition table

Having recently run through EnableHibernateWithEncryptedSwap, I now get 3 separate 'Disk doesn't contain a valid partition table' when I run sudo fdisk -l: Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--t10194-root ...
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After hard drive partitioning the encrypted swap is/was? not working

system is Ubuntu 12.04 x64 Linux UserPC 3.2.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:03:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I had to do modifications to the partitioning of Windows, in short I ...
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How to Increase Swap Memory? [duplicate]

2 Months ago, I installed Ubuntu 12.04 in my PC. I never knew what was swap memory and I gave 1.5 GB for Swap Partition but I read in an Article for a PC with 2GB ram and 100GB+ Hard disk, We should ...
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Help with Swap Partition

(Translated from spanish) I accidentally marked a 136GB partition which has some files in it as swap space during installation. Can I access these files? Can I change the partition type without ...
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What are these unknown partitions I see in gparted?

There are two partitions in my Ubuntu 12.04 setup that don't mount and are "unknown"; /dev/sda7 and /dev/sda5: and the properties dialogue: Is one supposed to be my SWAP partition? I have 8 GB ...
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System Needs Tuning [closed]

my ubuntu desktop seems to be running very slow, I wonder if the swap is mounted correctly? root@xxxx:/home# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, ...
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Damaged swap partition - How and what to do?

I needed GPartEd to format a MicroSD card (don't trust Disk Utility too much as more problems seem to occur with hard drives and memory cards I formatted with it, than with the ones I formatted wth ...
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Enlarge swap partition without disturbing anything!

I'm having a few issues with 12.04 right now when manipulating large image files, which never used to occur when doing the same with 10.04. I noticed when I clean-installed that the swap partition it ...
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partitioning suggestions

Today i am going to install a clean ubuntu 12.04 . Right now i am running windows 7 home premium 64 bit. I am going to dual boot ubuntu. Also i am using a 120 gb ssd. My question is can you help me to ...
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Why did ubuntu install break out my partitions?

I have a 750GB hard disk with Windows 7 installed. So I shrunk the C: drive to about 80 GB, created two more partitions, one for data (about 615GB), one for ubuntu (30GB) (extended partition). I ran ...
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Small doubts partitions in Ubuntu, please help

I have two small questions: I want to erase "Windows 7 - 64-bit", by using Ubuntu 10.11 on the entire hard drive, but I don't want to delete my /home/ dir, so is it necessary to delete all ...
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Swap partition is being corrupted by running Ubuntu from a USB stick

The question I have is a little complicated, I'll try to walk you through the problem: Basically, I installed Ubuntu 11.10 onto a USB thumb drive that I formatted as an ext2 partition. I didn't want ...
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Steps to take before resizing partition to prevent damaging data

I use Ubuntu 11.10 and have three partitions, one ext4 for the root directory, one ext4 for the /home and one for swap. I need to release disk space so I can increase swap space, and create a new ...
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How to create swap partition on already installed ubuntu? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Adding swap partition after system installation i have already installed ubuntu 11.04 without any swap partition. Now i want to create swap partition which should be ...
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Was I supposed to have something in this partition?

EDIT $3 Looks like it already saved my swap even without editing fstab. take a look: EDIT #2: Alright - rebooted and this is what I got, let me know if I did everything correctly: EDIT #1: ...
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Why does Ubuntu need 2 swap partitions, can I remove one?

I installed Ubuntu 11.10 - 32bit (with 40GB disk space) alongside windows7. Then, I installed a Ubuntu 11.10 - 64bit alongside windows, as the 32bit was installed by my mistake. I chose the ...
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Poor performance after reinstalling to a USB drive

I am currently running Ubuntu 11.10 off of a SanDisk 16GB USB. I installed it using a Live USB with the following partition configuration: 6GB Primary /dos FAT32 5GB Logical / ext4 5GB Logical ...
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Swap partition under logical partitions container?

I know a similar question has been made already (http://askubuntu.com/questions/35303/linux-swap-partition-is-in-extended-drive) but I have a similar problem with a partition alignment warning. I ...
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delete old swap partition [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to delete a second swap partition safely? I had this old swap partition then I deleted my old Ubuntu partition and then installed Ubuntu 11.10 but it made another ...
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How to solve my partition table?

I have an issue, not necessarily a problem. I have a disk, which had Ubuntu 11.04, a swap, a big NTFS and some free space. When 11.10 came out, I did a fresh install and recently I've deleted the ...
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How do I create a swap partition for hibernation?

While installing Ubuntu 11.10 a months ago I had not allotted any swap space, I now came to know that there would be no Hibernate option without Swap space. Is it possible to do it Now?, What if the ...
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Recover data from partition overwritten by swap partition

I've just reinstalled Ubuntu, and I chose a partition full of data as a swap area. I didn't realize that the swap area would overwrite my files. Can I recover my partition or my data now?
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How to edit swap partitions?

I've done several installations of different Ubuntu versions on my machine one over the other from a CD or live usb, and now I have a mess of swap partitions (something like 10 of them), so I need to ...
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Two Ubuntu partitions with different swap partitions

I have installed two Ubuntu partitions and they appear to be using two different swap partitions. Is this a safety thing or is it a waste of space? If the latter, how do I set up one Ubuntu to use ...

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