More Gparted problems. [SOLVED]

[Sparky]

If you don't want a swap partition (making a swap file later on should also be possible) then you simply remove the last line from fstab (that UUID doesn't exist anymore anyway).

Thanks Tony!

[tony37]

It's possible that your system will still try to resume from swap, is there somewhere a "RESUME" variable in your /etc/default/grub file?

[Sparky]

No resume:

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GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(unset PRETTY_NAME; (. /etc/lsb-release; echo ${PRETTY_NAME:?}) 2>/dev/null || echo Debian)"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

[tony37]

Ok, then I think things should go fine. Let me know if booting does take a lot longer than expected, or if you'd get an error.

[Sparky]

Will do, thanks!

[tony37]

Do you ever get close to using 12GB RAM? In that case it's best to make a swap file, following this guide worked for me. You can always remove it afterwards, there also isn't this gparted hassle involved.

[Sparky]

The link points back to this thread.

[tony37]

oops, corrected

There's a lot of explanation there, if you just want instructions to create a 2GB swapfile:

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sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=2000000
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

and then add the following to /etc/fstab if you want to boot with it:

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/swapfile    none    swap    sw    0    0

If you want, say a 4GB swapfile, then change count=2000000 in the first command to count=4000000

And to remove the swapfile: remove the entry from /etc/fstab (or put a '#' in front of it) and:

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sudo swapoff /swapfile
sudo rm /swapfile

[Sparky]

Thanks Tony, I really appreciate your help!
I find myself running out of RAM when I use VirtualBox, which wasn't as apparent before, so I'll add the 4GB swap.

[Sparky]

Did it!

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$ swapon --show
NAME      TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/swapfile file 3.8G   0B   -2