On 17 October 2014 15:42, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gordo...@mail.com> wrote: > On 17/10/14 15:36, J Fernyhough wrote: >> >> sudo mkswap /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 >> sudo swapon /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 > > > Looks like that's it. > Swap is now showing up in System Monitor as available with 1GB of space. >
Just to make sure it's pointed out, you'll need to add it to your fstab to get it activated on each boot. > > As I'm going to add another GB of RAM shortly, will it expand automatically, > or if not, can I increase the Swap area? > It won't expand automatically, and I'm not sure how LVM will respond to resizing the first (root) group. I remember having problems shrinking an ext4 partition to allow the volume group to be shrunk, though you should be fine if you can take the disk offline (e.g. use a USB live image). So it's possible, but a faff, and with more RAM you should need swap less. If you're stuck you could create a swap file instead and do away with the separate partition (I'll leave that as an exercise for now ;). > > Thanks for all your help! > More than welcome. ;) I'm glad there was something on this list I could help with! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
