Hello all, I've been trying to increase my swap space as outlined in the tutorial from this forum.
When trying to increase my existing swapfile, the following happens:
user@AntiClover:~$ swapon --show
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/dm-2 partition 1,9G 0B -2
user@AntiClover:~$ sudo swapoff /dev/dm-2
[sudo] password for user:
user@AntiClover:~$ sudo fallocate -l 16G /dev/dm-2
fallocate: fallocate failed: Invalid argument
I also tried using fallocate -x -l 16G after reading this answer; It doesn't print an error, but it appears to have no effect.
After hitting a wall, I thought of creating a new, bigger swapfile instead and deleting the old one. However, this happens:
user@AntiClover:~$ sudo fallocate -l 16G /dev/dm-3
fallocate: fallocate failed: No space left on device
However, I do still have enough space on my drive to house a 16 Gigabyte file:
user@AntiClover:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1,6G 2,3M 1,6G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/vgzorin-root 914G 649G 219G 75% /
tmpfs 7,8G 808K 7,8G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock
efivarfs 192K 158K 30K 84% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p2 1,7G 342M 1,2G 23% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1 511M 6,1M 505M 2% /boot/efi
tmpfs 1,6G 45M 1,5G 3% /run/user/1000
I thought maybe dm-2 links somewhere and that's why there's no space, but it doesn't appear so.
user@AntiClover:~$ readlink -f /dev/dm-2
/dev/dm-2
I also tried resizing /dev/vgzorin/swap_1 after seeing that GNOME Disk listing it, but with the same results.
Did I miss something? What else could I try to either increase my existing swapfile, or create a new, bigger one? Thanks in advance for any help!
