Create a swap partition on already existing drive with zorin os installed

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Create or Resize Swap file/Partition

To create a swap file or resize the swap file. Check current swap usage. Open a terminal and enter the following command to check if you already have a swap file or partition in use: swapon --show Create a new swap file (if you don't have one): sudo fallocate -l 2G /path/to/swapfile sudo chmod 600 /path/to/swapfile sudo mkswap /path/to/swapfile Replace /path/to/swapfile/partition with the actual location where you want to create the swap file (e.g. /swapfile, /Partition-ID). A…

Swap & Swappiness Explained

------------------ What is SWAP? ------------------- A: SWAP: is a backup for DRAM. SWAPPING: Is the action of moving DRAM file's to your Hard drive. ---- How SWAP works ---- SWAP is a dedicated partition/file (space), created to assist the physical memory (DRAM). When the DRAM is full, or reaches the set parameters, the kernel will move (called: "Swapping in" or "Paging in") idle App (Data), to the SWAP space. This action frees up the DRAM. Thus running the Priority Process/Data neede…

Add a Swap partition

So I got to checking out NoHang, the low-memory handler for Linux. I ran nohang -m to test it, and it works. That got me to thinking about how much swap space I had, so I ran swapon --show... I've only got 2 GB of swap space in the sda2 partition. Well, changing the size of that partition isn't going to be easy, so I decided to set up a second swap partition, with a bit more space. I have a 4 TB USB hard drive attached... 1 TB is used as a ZFS mirror of the 1 TB internal drive, and the rest i…