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Re: Crunchbang Swap partitioning

Ram — Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:18 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:18 pm

Luck so n so, enjoy.

Got my free stuff through

heiowge — Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:39 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:39 pm

My glittering prizes arrived, along with some cool badges! Cheers guys.

PS. It arrived this morning just fine despite getting my road wrong in the address.

Re: Crunchbang Swap partitioning

Ram — Thu Nov 08, 2012 4:12 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 4:12 pm

heiowge wrote:

For those who want to know, this one made the star question in this month's mag!

I didn't as I saw it

Re: Crunchbang Swap partitioning

heiowge — Thu Nov 08, 2012 3:00 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 3:00 pm

For those who want to know, this one made the star question in this month's mag!

Re: Crunchbang Swap partitioning

nelz — Mon Sep 17, 2012 1:10 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 1:10 pm

Which Crunchbang ISO are you using? I've tried crunchbang-10-20120207-i386.bpo.iso and crunchbang-11-20120806-amd64.iso and both gave a graphical installer with a swap option. The Crunchbang 10 ISO also had a text install option, as in your screenshot, but this also allowed swap partitions to be created.

Re: Crunchbang Swap partitioning

nelz — Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:16 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:16 pm

You don't need to use ugly and unreadable UUIDs of course, you could use the plain device name, /dev/sdN, or you could give the swap filesystem a label and use that.

Code:

mkswap --label myswap /dev/sdN

and

Code:

LABEL=myswap none swap sw 0 0

Re: Crunchbang Swap partitioning

ajgreeny — Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:32 am

Author: ajgreeny

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:32 am

Swap is not mounted in the normal way as your root and home partitions are. The line needed in fstab will be

Code:

UUID=1bfd912d-b6b6-4a68-9aaf-4139513772ec none swap sw 0 0

but with your own UUID, of course.

Just make the partition, then do what nelz said and all should work.

Re: Crunchbang Swap partitioning

nelz — Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:46 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:46 am

Do it manually, you don't even need gparted, just "mksawp /dev/sdX", then add it to fstab.

Re: Crunchbang Swap partitioning

Dutch_Master — Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:44 am

Author: Dutch_Master

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:44 am

Choose the "do not mount" option, install as per instructions then have gparted mark it as swap. Enter entry in /etc/fstab, save and reboot.

Re: Crunchbang Swap partitioning

heiowge — Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:14 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:14 pm

I tried that, but it didn't take "swap" as a correct answer.

Re: Crunchbang Swap partitioning

Ram — Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:05 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:05 pm

Is it not under 'Enter manually'

Crunchbang Swap partitioning

heiowge — Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:06 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:06 pm

Installing Crunchbang (latest pro build) in virtualbox. I set 11.4ish GB for the virtual hd. Guided partitioning doesn't give me much in the way of / or swap, instead blowing most on /home. Since I'm not intending to store many files on it, I wanted a different split.

I intended to give about 8GB to /, and 1GB to Swap with the rest to /home. Alls well and good, except the flipping partitioner doesn't seem to give me an option to set a partition as Swap.

Am I just being dense here?

Here's a screenshot of what I see...