CentOS 5 :: Share SWAP Partition With Other OS?
Jan 24, 2011Howto install CentOS 5.5 as a second OS to share the same SWAP Partition with other linux, for example Debian?
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Ubuntu :: 64 And Backtrack Won't Share A Swap Partition?
Nov 4, 2010I'm triple booting Windows 7 32-bit (that's the only version I had), Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit, and Backtrack 4 R1.
Windows 7 installed and runs fine. Ubuntu installed and runs fine. I try to install Backtrack 4 R1, create a / partition, create a /boot partition (do I need to create a /boot for Backtrack?), and I don't create a swap file because the Ubuntu swap file is already in there.
I click "forward", the install starts up, then I get "The attempt to mount a file system with type swap...yadda yadda yadda...has failed." I google this, I get some results talking about an mkswap command, but in my noobness, I don't understand.
Can Ubuntu 64 bit and Backtrack not share a swap file? I don't want to create 2 swap files
General :: Ubuntu 64 And Backtrack Won't Share A Swap Partition / Fix It?
Nov 4, 2010I'm triple booting Windows 7 32-bit (that's the only version I had), Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit, and Backtrack 4 R1.
Windows 7 installed and runs fine. Ubuntu installed and runs fine. I try to install Backtrack 4 R1, create a / partition, create a /boot partition (do I need to create a /boot for Backtrack?), and I don't create a swap file because the Ubuntu swap file is already in there.
I click "forward", the install starts up, then I get "The attempt to mount a file system with type swap...yadda yadda yadda...has failed." I google this, I get some results talking about an mkswap command, but in my noobness, I don't understand.
Can Ubuntu 64 bit and Backtrack not share a swap file? I don't want to create 2 swap files because I've googled around and that looks like a bad thing to do.
CentOS 5 :: When To Skip Swap Partition Creation
May 10, 2009Are there any general recommendations on skipping creation of swap partition on servers? If I am sure that server will be ok with it's RAM is there any benefit in skipping swap partition creation or making it the least size possible other than saving disk space?
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Aug 10, 2010I recently installed Cent-Os on a server and changed the default partitioning to have 2 partitions - 1 main area for everything and a swap partition of 8Gb After installation I cant see the swap as a separate partition although there is a 16GB tempfs mounted as /dev/shm Is this right ?
fdisk -l shows :-
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 14 17844 143227507+ 8e Linux LVM
(first partition being non-lvm boot)
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Feb 23, 2011I had a drive with a partition layout like so:
~50gig Windows 7 - NTFS
~100gig Ubuntu - EXT3
~100gig Snow Leopard - HFS+
~100gig Extended Partition
-- ~100gig Swap Disk - exFat
I wanted to delete the Snow Leopard partition and format the Swap Disk partition to something else. exFat was causing major file size bloat on small files. QT sdk bloated to like 11 gigs or something ridiculous like that. Anyways, I loaded up an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS live cd and gparted then deleted the Snow Leopard partition. Gparted said "Mission Accomplished" and tried to rescan the drive, but never found it. At this point I restarted the computer, a dell laptop, which didn't boot with an unable to find a bootable device error. The ubuntu live cd doesn't see the drive anymore. gparted scans for drives indefinitely and fdisk -l has no output.
Hardware :: Invalid Partition Table For Swap Partition That Moved With Gparted?
Feb 8, 2010I was reading another thread about someone with a bad partition table and I decided to join this forum. I'm not going to take any drastic actions with the partition (/dev/sda3) in question. I am going to wait for instructions on what to do first. I am not very good with Linux and need some hand holding. System: DELL 4550 Dual-Booted with XP and Ubuntu. Works OK, just no swap. Well, here's what I did: I deleted a partition for Windows XP Pro because it was a trial, and it ran out. I then decided to slide the swap partition for the Ubuntu Linux that I dual-boot into over. (If this was successful, I was going to try expanding the root partition to take up the unused space.) I used Gparted on a CD to do this, as I figured it was safe to do.
I now cannot mount the swap space at bootup (and have to go into a backup version of the OS), although I can use Gparted in Linux to execute the "swapon" command, and it appears that it worked because I now see "swapoff" as an option on the context menu. (I actually don't even need a swap partition, except to hibernate.) If I highlight the swap partition and click on "Drive" on Gparted's menu bar and select "Create Partition Table", it will erase all data on /dev/sda, so how do I fix the bad partition table non-destructively?
Debian Installation :: Wiped Windows Partition With Swap And LVM Partition
Jan 17, 2015I am having issues with Grub 2 after installing Debian 7.8.0.The computer is a HP Pavilion 500-307nb. I made the original harddrive /dev/sdb and inserted a Samsung Evo 840 as /dev/sda. From the original hard drive (/dev/sdb), I wiped the windows partition, but left all other partitions unchanged (in case I would ever want to recover the desktop to its original state). I replaced the wiped windows partition with a swap partition and an LVM partition.These are my hard drive partitions:
/dev/sda (Samsung Evo 840)
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 3146kB 2097kB primary bios_grub
2 3146kB 944MB 941MB ext4 boot
3 944MB 94.4GB 93.4GB host lvm
4 94.4GB 1000GB 906GB guests lvm
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The partition /dev/sda3 has 2 logical volumes with filesystem ext4 that I mount to / and /home.The partition /dev/sda2 is mounted to /boot..When I install like this, Debian installs fine, however Grub2 is not installed correctly.Debian installs grub-pc which seems not able to boot the gpt partition. So I boot the Debian CD in rescue mode and execute:
mount /dev/sda2 /boot
aptitude purge grub-pc
aptitude -y install grub-efi
After rebooting, I come in the grub rescue shell, which says: error: no such device: 986f2176--4a4b-4222-83b9-8636a034b3c7.
When I then enter in the grub rescue shell:
set boot=(hd0,gpt2)
set prefix=(hd0,gpt2)/grub
insmod normal
normal
Grub and Debian start up correctly.why can Grub not start up automatically correctly? Where does the UUID 986f2176--4a4b-4222-83b9-8636a034b3c7 come from? I have reinstalled Grub several times, I have reinstall Debian several times, I have even wiped all partitions from /dev/sda and recreated a new gpt table with parted and manually set the partitions in parted. Still on each reinstallation, Grub fails because it cannot find exactly the same UUID. Since this UUID is always the same, it must be stored somewhere, but it cannot be the partitions, I have wiped them and the partition table several times.
I did though a firmware update of the Samsung Evo 840 before reinstallation, could this be a cause?Also the problem is not in grub.cfg. Grub starts correctly if I enter the commands above in the grub rescue screen and the UUID value does not appear there.
General :: Place Swap Partition On LVM Or On Standard Fdisk Partition
Aug 4, 2011I wonder whether to place swap partition on LVM or on standard fdisk partition which will not be in LVM.What is better and more often used on production ?
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May 21, 2011I've recently just installed ubuntu 11.04 but seem to have made a big mistake. During the install process I was asked to specify a location to be used for swap. Not really understanding what this meant I chose another partition on my drive with some free space but also a lot of my data. Needless to say I now cant see that partition. Is there anyway for me to access it? or to at least recover the information I need from there? its about a 200gig partition, and it used to be ntfs.
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Jan 28, 2010I am trying to see if I can swap out our 150+ Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server for CentOS. From my initial thoughts I can. I am however running into an issue with the firstboot. Currently, we use firstboot on Suse with our base image. We created an image which we deploy and then firstboot runs our necessary scripts to configure the networking and office specific settings. I want to test this out but when I search for the firstboot.xml file I can't find it. I need to modify the config file and change the way the firstboot runs. Is this possible with CentOS?
I am also wondering if anyone is using Novell ZenWorks Linux Management to manage their CentOS instances or if you are using something else I would like to hear what tool you're using. I would need the ability to deploy patch/ security updates and make occasionally changes to files, not very often though.
Just a brief run down of what the server(s) will be doing. Their primary purpose is to provide caching via squid and the use of the browser for new hires until they get their notebooks. The browser runs Java and flash and the ability to print is also necessary. Pretty basic stuff so I am looking at CentOS cause the forums look very active!
Fedora Installation :: Installation - Creating A Swap Partition Or A Boot Partition?
Jul 27, 2009I have a brand new thinkpad X301 with 4GB of RAM and thinking of getting fedora 11 on it. The plan is to have it triple boot with vista/seven and hopefully OSx86. I am aware of the 4 primary partitions limit on an MBR disk. I was thinking of having a swap file instead of swap partition and not creating a boot partition as well. If I install the boot loader(GRUB?) on the root partition will I be able to boot it without any problems by using vista's boot loader?
Or Maybe I should install GRUB on the MBR and add all the other operating systems on it? Does anyone have any objections for not creating a swap partition or a boot partition? When comes to desktop environment I've been using KDE in the past, is there any major advantage of using Gnome over it? KDE seems to look really nice on fedora where Gnome is maybe more stable?
Ubuntu :: No Swap Partition?
Feb 14, 2011My motherboard supports up to 8GB DDR2. I currently have 4GB installed. If I maxed out my RAM, and installed 10.10 without a swap partition, I've heard this would increase speeds significantly. Would it? This particular rig runs multiple servers including an Asterisk PBX with FreePBX, XBMC, and Boxee. XBMC and Boxee do not run at the same time, only one at a time. Would it be safe to run with 8GB ram, and no swap partition? Running FreePBX/asterisk, XBMC, playing videos or ....., and every other background processes, free shows on average 50% free. Opinions?
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Jun 17, 2011I am getting a new SSD for my laptop and I have been researching the different tweaks for an SSD. I still have a question regarding the swap partition: is it better to not have one for an SSD? (I have 4GB of RAM...)
If I don't, how would I specify it during the installation process for 10.04?
Debian :: Swap Partition Between Distros
Apr 26, 2015Is it possible to use the same swap partition between distros or not ?
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Jul 3, 2011Currently my system runs on two disks, sda 30GB and sdc 1GB. sdb is my data disk. I have set the partitions as sda1 /boot, sda2 /(root) and sdc1 /(swap).
Thinking that sdc was udma33 i used the disk for a swap area. Later i found out that it is pio4 and i want to relocate my swap area to sda.
Using GParted Live i am planning to create a swap partition to sda. Will fixing the entry in fstab be enough to correct this or do i need to do something more?
I could also use some advice on which live debian image i can install in sdc, to use for rescuing purposes. The capacity of the disk is 1080MB.
As a side note, the images i find for usd-hdd are direct download. Are there any torrent files for these?
Fedora :: Resizing (2GB) Swap Partition LVM?
Nov 20, 2009I have a small disk and I want to resize to 2 gb the swap partition, how I can do?
[root@server12 ~]# lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg_fedora11/lv_root
VG Name vg_fedora11
LV UUID Zwl9te-GQ1j-5Py3-Jiz0-JFAY-sy7n-iaV2TP
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 52.32 GB
Current LE 13393
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:0
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg_fedora11/lv_swap
VG Name vg_fedora11
LV UUID k61vCI-YAdI-XgNX-xRaG-B7jY-CTMQ-LKOjwk
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 3.92 GB
Current LE 1004
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:1
Fedora :: F15 - Swap Partition Not Mounting?
May 31, 2011I have the swap partition configured normally in fstab but it doesn't automount when I boot up. Not only that but I can't manually mount it either (ie with 'swapon -a', 'swapon -L /dev/sda7' etc). When I try I get this error -
Code:
[spoovy@kermitfed ~]$ sudo swapon -a
swapon: /dev/sda7: read swap header failed: Invalid argument
fstab -
Code:
/dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
The swap partition is used by another installation (Ubuntu dual-boot), which mounts it fine each boot.
Ubuntu :: Swap Partition Will Go In Extended One?
Jan 25, 2010Can Ubuntu swap partition go in an Extended partition (a logical partition within the extended) while Ubuntu is on a Primary partition?
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Feb 6, 2010I want to remove my swap partition. Probably one I would have to boot into a rescue cd and remove it, but aside from that is there any other consideration or commands that I need to be aware of?
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Apr 19, 2010I recently installed Ubuntu Server, the 8.04LTS release, on my dad's computer which, for the time being, has to dual-act as both a server and a desktop. Will be running solely as a server pretty soon, though. Anyway - since I was down on the budget and the project I put up the server for is still in a development phase and not worth to invest serious money in (at this stage), it has to run on a computer with the following hardware configuration (I left out the non-important parts):
Code:
Intel Celeron 2.2 Ghz
~500 MB of DDR 333MHz RAM
It has 80 or so GBs of disk space, so I went for the low-mem, high-disk scenario and created a swap partition of 1,5 GB. However, I can notice that is rarely even used! I have set the vm.swappiness parameter to 95 but my swap partition is still not being used, even when the memory usage goes up to 90%. I saw it being used once, but only when the needed memory size exceeded 500.
Does anybody know how to force Ubuntu Server to use the swap partition?
Ubuntu :: Encrypted Swap Partition?
Jul 1, 2010I read an article earlier that suggested the swap partition is encrypted by default if you select an encrypted /home folder during installation, is that true (for Lucid)? I am suspecting it isn't because my hibernation works, which I believe shouldn't be the case?
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Jan 19, 2011I have a live/persistent installs of Lubuntu 10.04 on a USB-HDD. It's on a 320 GB portable drive. I've partitioned it so that 80 GB is for the Lubuntu live install and the remaining 240 GB is another partition dedicated to storing stuff. So this USB-HDD is doing double duty. The thing is, I was paying so much attention to making the persistent install work without making a mess of the boot loader (I did that in the past; twice!) that I had overlooked the fact my live install does not have a swap sartition on it. I just assumed (incorrectly) that the swap partition on would just be part and parcel of the installation. Can anyone tell me of a way to add a swap partition to each of my live installs? Without losing any data or anything like that. It's probably not doing any harm not having a swap partition, but I'm assuming that my live install would be that much more efficient with it.
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Feb 15, 2011After unsuccessfully trying to install Oracle Express I find that for some reason the swap partition on my server disk does not get used.
My setup: 10.10 server x64 on an intel server with two 500gb HDs in a mirror array
This is puzzling, because I definitely created a swap partition for this system and indeed if I look at /etc/fstab I actually have two swap partitions, one on /dev/mapper/[some long raid name]_ar05 and one on /dev/mapper/cryptswap1, but AFAIK this is normal with 10.10.
"swapon -a" fails with this message:
Code:
swapon: /dev/mapper/[raid name]_ar05: read swap header failed: Invalid argument
swapon: /dev/mapper/cryptswap1: stat failed: No such file or directory
there's always the option of using a file on the server's filesystem, but I want to see if this can be fixed. I only have remote access to server via SSH, which makes startup troubleshooting pretty impossible.
I have a local server at home also using 10.10 server 64-bit with an encrypted swap file running on a RAID array, but it does not have this problem.
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Apr 1, 2011I didn't like the fact that Ubuntu allocated like 5gigs of swap with its automatic partitioning / install. So I decided to shrink it with gparted now it doesn't show up when I boot I have to select swap on in gparted to use it.
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May 11, 2011Ubuntu has been complaining about swap not being ready during boot. The swap partition was showing up un-known in gparted. I booted off CD, reformatted it to swap. Error message gone but system monitor > resources shows my swap size to be 86GB (the exact size of my shared NTFS volume). gparted shows the swap partition as not 'swapped on'
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 along side Windows 7 (as well as my factory restore partition) and an NTFS shared partition.
My partition structure in order of location on disc. Screen shot below to help.
sda1-2 Windows 7
sda4, extended partition
--sda6 Ubuntu
--sda7 swap
--sda5 NTFS shared partition
sda3 Factory restore image