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increase swap partition
Hi All, I have upgraded from 4GB RAM to 16GB. I feel like I should increase the swap partition. What do you think, shall I and how can I do this? Especially using RAID-1 I'm not sure whether I shal...
One option might be to create a swap file, and place that on the data volume (or even a dedicated SSD volume).
Not something I've tried, but it seems to me that it should work, and is probably more sustainable than repartitioning the drives (e.g., it can easily be put back in place if you ever need to do a factory reset).
Is there some application you want to run that requires swapping?
Hi Stephen,
thanks for the quick reply. The answer is YES I'm running virtualbox on the system so it may happen that swapping is required.
One option might be to create a swap file, and place that on the data volume (or even a dedicated SSD volume).
Not something I've tried, but it seems to me that it should work, and is probably more sustainable than repartitioning the drives (e.g., it can easily be put back in place if you ever need to do a factory reset).
Yes this could be one approach. I'm not a 100% unix guru, so I did some research on this. I will also need to adjust the /etc/fstab. Won't this be overwritten once I do a firmware upgrade?
Talking about factory reset. What would happen if I do a factory reset having 16GB of RAM. Once starting up and installing from scratch would it adjust the swap partition correctly?
Hi Stephen,
thanks again for your feedback. I will try with the swap file sounds most reasonable to me.
Best regards
el Loco
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