[SOLVED] Swap too small. Wondering if I can extend it

rileysu · 2017-07-23 21:34:32

When I installed arch I wasn't very experienced in what swap did and the proper swap size I would need for my system. I ended up making a swap partition that is 1GB in size even though I've got 8GB of ram. To make matters worse, the swap partition precedes the root partition making resizing not very easy. Would I be able to somehow transfer all the data in the root partition forward by 7GB to make space for the existing swap partition to extend into?

Last edited by rileysu (2017-07-24 06:53:43)

jasonwryan · 2017-07-23 21:37:18

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap#Swap_file

rileysu · 2017-07-23 21:39:31

jasonwryan wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap#Swap_file

Wouldn't I then have a non working swap partition taking up hard drive space?

jasonwryan · 2017-07-23 21:42:31

It's 1 GB.

You can go through the process of resizing your partitions, or you can set up a swap file.

rileysu · 2017-07-23 21:47:53

jasonwryan wrote:

It's 1 GB.
You can go through the process of resizing your partitions, or you can set up a swap file.

Thank you for the help. I guess I'll just go with a swap file.

Slithery · 2017-07-23 21:56:20

Do you need more than 1G of swap?

rileysu · 2017-07-23 21:57:57

slithery wrote:

Do you need more than 1G of swap?

I need it for hibernate apparently.

rileysu · 2017-07-23 22:23:21

Screw it. I've fully backed up my system and I'll try to move the root partition over. If it works I'll let you guys know. If I keep the partition order I don't think I'll need to change my bootloader configs.

rileysu · 2017-07-23 22:45:22

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        8060480      321120     7138788      150592      600572     7336820
Swap:       8388604           0     8388604

It worked and didn't mess up my installation, thank you for the help guys.

x33a · 2017-07-24 04:18:19

Nice. Please mark the thread as solved, by editing the first post.

rileysu · 2017-07-24 06:55:45

For anyone wondering what I did. I wasn't aware that if you launch a gparted live usb you can transfer a partition over as well as the data inside the partition. So I shifted it to the right by 7GB and expanded the swap by 7GB which was surprisingly simple.

Slithery · 2017-07-24 10:16:30

For future reference it would have been a lot quicker to just delete the old swap and create a new, larger swap.

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