Partitioning for Kubuntu

[logan01]

When I enter those things like you just had me do, are those commands, what? I need to learn the correct terms. Having a blast. Must compile a list of all these and what they do. Thanks.

[logan01]

I wonder why swapon didn't work. Try swapon -s

richard@richard-HP-15-Notebook-PC:~$ swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/sda7                               partition       7812092 0       -1
richard@richard-HP-15-Notebook-PC:~$

[oshunluvr]

I wonder why swapon didn't work. Try swapon -s

[Qqmike]

Your swap is the partition with code 8200 -- Partition 7.

[logan01]

Good deal. Thanks. Gotta do this for oshunluvr:

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048         1333247   650.0 MiB   2700  Basic data partition
   2         1333248         1865727   260.0 MiB   EF00  EFI system partition
   3         1865728         2127871   128.0 MiB   0C01  Microsoft reserved part
   4         2127872       623644072   296.4 GiB   0700  Basic data partition
   5       930844672       932605951   860.0 MiB   2700  
   6       932605952       976762879   21.1 GiB    0700  Basic data partition
   7       623644672       639268863   7.5 GiB     8200  
   8       639268864       697862143   27.9 GiB    8300  
   9       697862144       815048703   55.9 GiB    8300

[elijathegold]

Thanks. like the space -m. So do I need to do something regarding swap?

No it looks fine, it's there when it's needed.

[logan01]

Thanks. like the space -m. So do I need to do something regarding swap?

[Qqmike]

logan01 -- go read my other post to you on using code tags ...

[elijathegold]

ichard@richard-HP-15-Notebook-PC:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3934964    1595992    2338972     123516      77176     821180
-/+ buffers/cache:     697636    3237328
Swap:      7812092          0    7812092

Added code tags.

The last line is telling you that you have used none of your swap. If you want to make it more readable use the -m flag to show the results in megabytes

richard@andromeda-ascendant:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         15964       4386      11577        442        272       2230
-/+ buffers/cache:       1883      14080
Swap:        16211          0      16211

Yeah... I'm a Richard too.

[logan01]

Changes needed, interpretable, holding your belly laughing?

[logan01]

Results from "free".

ichard@richard-HP-15-Notebook-PC:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3934964 1595992 2338972 123516 77176 821180
-/+ buffers/cache: 697636 3237328
Swap: 7812092 0 7812092

[oshunluvr]

Odd. Maybe it's not enabled or forammted. Here's my output

stuart@office:~$ swapon
NAME      TYPE      SIZE  USED PRIO
/dev/sdf2 partition   8G 40.1M    1
/dev/sdg2 partition   8G 40.1M    1

Do you know which partition number it is? Is it in your fstab?

Use Mike's command to find out:

sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda

[logan01]

Just ran all the others.

[logan01]

Another way to see if your swap is there:

swapon

shows you swaps and size, amount used, priority, etc.

free

shows it too...

here's what I just got (and thanks):
richard@richard-HP-15-Notebook-PC:~$ swapon

Usage:
swapon [options] [<spec>]

Options:
-a, --all enable all swaps from /etc/fstab
-d, --discard discard freed pages before they are reused
-e, --ifexists silently skip devices that do not exis
-f, --fixpgsz reinitialize the swap space if necessary
-h, --help display help and exit
-p, --priority <prio> specify the priority of the swap device.
-s, --summary display summary about used swap devices and exit
-v, --verbose verbose mode
-V, --version display version and exit

The <spec> parameter:
-L <label> LABEL of device to be used
-U <uuid> UUID of device to be used
LABEL=<label> LABEL of device to be used
UUID=<uuid> UUID of device to be used
<device> name of device to be used
<file> name of file to be used

[oshunluvr]

A swap partition is faster and preferred in most cases.