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Ubuntu 12.04 increase swap [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 and want to increase my swap size from 1Gb to 4Gb.
how can I do this?
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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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How to resize swap (not just adding it) [duplicate]
I made Ubuntu 14.04 (64bit) in my VM and I gave it 350gb of my 1tb HDD space and I did it fixed (not dynamically allocated) and i did it as a VDI and in my settings I set it to read the space as a SSD....
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How can i increase size of swap file? [duplicate]
I'm new to Ubuntu . I need to increase size of swap file from 8 GB to 16 GB , how can i do it ? and is that in this file /etc/fstab ?
by command free -h
total used free ...
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How to add swap file to Ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
I have at Ubuntu 12.04 swap size the same as my RAM - 1Gb.
I want to increase this a little bit, till 3Gb. Increase 2Gb of swap size.
I read SwapFaq but I can't understand how to keep having this ...
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How to increase swap size when there is already a partition existing [duplicate]
~$ sudo swapon --show gives me this
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/sda5 partition 976M 0B -2
I want to increase my swap size. Is there a way to increase this or do I have to create a ...
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How can I make swap space? [duplicate]
I'm very new to Ubuntu, using 14.04. I need to make swap space, so I read, to overcome a garbage collector problem. My RAM is 8 GB, and my code is using big data and uses a lot of RAM.
What is swap ...
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How to add swap area? [duplicate]
This is the status of my system:
$ grep 'Swap' /proc/meminfo
SwapCached: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Please let me know how can I increase the swap area without re-installing.
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VMware Workstation recommends 2 GB of system swap space [duplicate]
When I start a virtual machine, it appears the following message:
The question is, how to increase the swap file?
I am using VMware® Workstation 15 Pro 15.0.2 build-10952284
This is the actual ...
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Can't hibernate (+ poor computer literacy) [duplicate]
When I try to hibernate my computer I receive 2 messages and computer turns off:
pnp_bus_resume+0x0/0X70 returns -19
PM: Device 00:08 failed to thaw error -19
Can something be done?
UPD: Thanks to ...
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How large should I make root, home, and swap partitions?
I have a laptop with win7 installed. I have now made a 60gb partition which I want to install ubuntu into. The question I have, before I do the installation, is how large each of the root, swap, and ...
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Touchpad not working after suspending laptop
This seems like a common problem, but after trying all of the fixes I've found on forums, I'm still at a loss.
Specs:
computer: Asus k501LX-EB71
OS: Ubuntu 14.04.3
kernel: 3.19.0-26-generic
touchpad:...
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Repairing broken installation from Live USB without losing data
I recently broke my installation and I've tried in vain to repair it using apt-get and all his friends. Now I'm trying the live USB and I'm not sure how to continue. And I desperately don't want to ...
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How to Increase Ubuntu's Virtual Memory and/or Swap for Matlab?
Situation: fix Out of Memory errors in Ubuntu's Matlab
Goal: allocate some virtual memory and/or Swap on external HDD/SSD; the read/write decrease from 20 GBps to 0.1 GBps, which is ok!
Terminology: ...
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Apps crash randomly on newly installed ubuntu 22.04
I've just installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop with 8GB ram (no dual boot, ext4 + 20GB linux swap);
Installed 2 gnome shell extensions (Dash to panel, Workspace Matrix);
My working environment is just ...
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How to increase the size of linux-swap partition
I want to increase the size of Linux-swap partition after installing ubuntu(not during the ubuntu installation wizard).
I want to increase /dev/sda9 partition from 9.31GB to 16 GB.Please help me.
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Can swap be on a different disk?
I have 16GB of RAM and the core system is run on 128GB sddisk. So I don't have space to use 16/32 GB for swap.
Can I create swap on another hard disk? Or it has to be on the same disk as the system?
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Can't wake up from suspend
My notebook with Intel+Nvidia card can't resume after suspend. I have Kubuntu 17.04 installed with 4.10.0-19 kernel. I'm using Intel GPU (Nvidia driver is not even installed). This issue has been ...
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System does not hibernate; the screen flashes off for a few seconds and nothing else happens
I just upgraded my Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04. I have a problem with hibernation in my new 12.04.
I run the following command
sudo pm-hibernate
but my system does not hibernate, i.e. my system does not ...
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how can I increase my RAM size with a swap partition? [duplicate]
Presently my RAM is 2GB. I heard that in linux we can get extra memory to RAM from the harddisk by using swap partition. What is the procedure for that?
here in the pics i'm giving my system info.
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Does Steam install games to the / (root) partition? [duplicate]
As far as I know, Steam (and pretty much every other application) is installed to the "/" partition. If that's the case, why is such a small "/" partition recommended? Couldn't one or two Steam ...
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How to extend ext4 with gparted?
I am having short in disk space in my ubuntu /dev/sda6 and i have 11.08 GB of free space unallocated in the sense.I have followed different article about the repartition but they are not working here ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Black Screen when waking from suspend
My computer displays a black screen on waking from suspend/hibernate.
This problem was present on 14.04, but was solved when I changed to a proprietary driver (NVIDIA). I recently wiped my Ubuntu 14....
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Cannot hibernate twice
I am running Ubuntu 13.10, and I manage to suspend to RAM without any incidents. Suspending to disk (hibernate), however, does not work the second time I do it (after a reboot).
I tried to hibernate ...
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Can't create a swap file
I've just formatted my laptop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I've a 250gb drive and I've split it in 3 partitions:One for Windows 7, one for Ubuntu and a shared partition for both windows and Ubuntu. I've ...
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Create Swap for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS [closed]
I'm using 2 GB RAM I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS how much swap do I need to create?
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How to create swap file on ext4 [duplicate]
My friend whats to create a 4GB swap file on his ext4 file system. because he is using a chromebook acer c7 the way he installed he did not have a chance to specify swap partition
and now he want to ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 freezes after suspend
I am using the latest version of Ubuntu 19.04. kernel version is 5.0.0-13 generic. I am using it with dual boot alongside Windows. Whenever I suspend or close the lid of the laptop ,the laptop hangs ...
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Upgraded to Ubuntu 14.10 and *everything* lags
Yesterday, I upgraded my Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (2013) from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 14.10. Since then, everything lags, from applications when opened (or 'drawn back in the background' for an ...
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creating swap partition, convert primary partitions to logical
I tried to install Ubuntu 14.04 into my laptop which already has got windows 8 installed in it. I had a 30GB free space and I allocated 29 out of that 30 as primary partition for Ubuntu. I wanted to ...
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