https://newblog.utzer.de/tags/system/ Recent content in System on tech.notes Hugo de Wed, 02 Oct 2019 08:04:57 +0000 https://newblog.utzer.de/2019/10/02/how-to-add-a-swap-drive-to-your-system/ Wed, 02 Oct 2019 08:04:57 +0000 http://tech.utzer.de/?p=84 <p>How to add a swap drive to your system, in this case I did this for a virtual machine (qemu) running <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap">Arch Linux</a>.</p> <p>See at the bottom for information about the virtual drive for qemu.</p> <p>List current available to system disks:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"><span style="display:flex;"><span>sudo blkid </span></span></code></pre></div><p>List all disks:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"><span style="display:flex;"><span>sudo lsblk </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Format as swap:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"><span style="display:flex;"><span>sudo mkswap /dev/vdb </span></span></code></pre></div><p>gives back the UUID</p> <p>Now the new swap disk will be shown when executing this again:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"><span style="display:flex;"><span>sudo blkid </span></span></code></pre></div><p>(also give the UUID)</p>