Question unfortunatley forgotten to create a swap-partition during the install-process

[thedighubs]

dear community, good evening, 🙂


unfortunatly i did not create a certain swap partition during my linux installation.

how to do this later: should i U/could i do this later?!

Should i free up some space and try to make a swap Partition!?

my Friends told me -that i should boot up, then swith manually to the gparted tool - and afterwards i would be able to
to right-click the swap partition to turn on the 'swapon' option.

goosh: this is quite annoying: cannot do we this automatically!?
in other words - are there any options to automatically enable the swap partition at boot?

Also, if I had not created the swap partition, what are my other Options - what would you do here!?

thanks for any and all support

greetings

 

[manly]

It is highly likely that you already have swap; recent Ubuntu distros use a file instead of a separate partition. The following article will explain how you can check, and how to create a swap file, if necessary. IMO all Linux installers will create and enable swap, by default.

How to create or add a SWAP partition in Ubuntu and Linux Mint

The SWAP partition is an essential feature to get the best performance and stability, especially in a PC with smaller RAM. In a nutshell, SWAP space is like adding a RAM, but not a physical one, but allocating some amount of hard disk space as RAM - like a virtual RAM! It makes sense to make...

www.fosslinux.com

A separate partition is not really necessary. You will be learning a lot of new things with Linux. Try exercising your web search skills, if you haven't already. 😉

Also, this is a software question so it should go into the Operating Systems sub-forum.