You dont need swap partition. Leave it. 2GB is enough for a linux
distro to run smoothly.
I dont use swap partition for any of my linux installation. This is
because all of them has enough amount of physical memory.
Swap partition was used in old days, when physical memory was low.
Shiplu
As Shiplu mentioned, you do not really need swap if you have that much
of physical memory.
However, the change was needed in the count= parameter. Calculate 4GB
in bytes and replace that number in count= parameter. Again, this 4GB
will be a waste of memory. Also creating swapfile on the same
Well at times swaps come into play. I have a habit of using more than on
browsers at a time. And Firefox ate 2GB of my 2.5GB memory at one time. :)
With highly resource hungry applications you might require to have more
memory even if you would have a lot of Ram.
But before increasing you should
