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heiowge · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:06 pm Post subject: Crunchbang Swap partitioning

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...

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Ram · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:05 pm Post subject:

Is it not under 'Enter manually'
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heiowge · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:14 pm Post subject:

I tried that, but it didn't take "swap" as a correct answer.
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Dutch_Master · LXF regular Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2354

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. Smile

nelz · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:46 am Post subject:

Do it manually, you don't even need gparted, just "mksawp /dev/sdX", then add it to fstab.
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ajgreeny · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:32 am Post subject:

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

nelz · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:16 pm Post subject:

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.

nelz · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 1:10 pm Post subject:

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.
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heiowge · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 3:00 pm Post subject:

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

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eeepc 1015PX, 1.66 Ghz Intel atom processor, 2 GB DDR3, 320 GB hd running Mint 14 MATE. Running great.

Ram · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 4:12 pm Post subject:

heiowge · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:39 pm Post subject: Got my free stuff through

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. Laughing

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Ram · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:18 pm Post subject:

Luck so n so, enjoy.
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