How to Extend or Create a Linux Swap Partition / Volume / Disk | (Gparted - Ubuntu)

How to Create or Extend a Linux Swap Partition using Ubuntu (gparted). This tutorial applies to all Linux distros with a Swap Partition and room to extend or create the Linux Swap by creating open disk space. We'll go through the process using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but it applies to most Linux Distributions. Follow along and Create / Extend your Swap through gparted and the command line today. The swap partition helps unused memory get swapped out to the disk from physical memory. This allows for more memory resources with quick access times to be available for your system. Swap partitions also help with setting up hibernation on your Linux system. Swap partitions can be great and all they do is take up some disk space on your storage device. Swap partitions in Ubuntu Linux can be a pain to extend and create. That's why we'll learn about how to do it step-by-step today.

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[marcelforrel]

Damn dude you’re the first Ubuntu instructional video maker that doesn’t talk about irrelevant nonsense for half an hour making it confusing as hell. Thanks for not doing that. Really appreciate this great guide!

[oglothenerd]

GParted is by far the best partition tool that I have ever used!!!

[shahriarromy]

Great video dude. saved my life. thank you

[brbbst]

Thank you very much for the tutorial!
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[spellsandstaves]

Very useful information. It's something which is very hard to find

[jamesmurphy]

Thank you, just successfully added a swap partition after an install of mx with no swap :)

[yogesh]

I use Swap partition(not swap file) of 16gb, so is this video is for swap file or swap partition? Bcz I wanted it to be clear before I move forward.

[TheRandomGuyTheFarNoGameCat]

No way, we have the same MOBO. What are the odds? 😅

Thank you for this video

[alpacamale]

forgive my ignorance but isn't swap only necessary if you have little RAM?

[markmuratore]

Great video. I use a program for astrophotography processing that requires the use of swap files. The developers say to use swap files with the ext4 format. What is the difference between ext4 and linux-swap and will it affect behavior? Thanks

[harkirat]

@SavvyNik Hi sir
Can you tell me what is difference between swap file and swap partition

[kalikatz]

You can also adjust things like swapiness to make the system use it only when necessary. Keeps disk/ssd writes to minimal. Not that it's really an issue these days

[AkshayKumar-kzzh]

great video! Can you make a video on how to resize root and home partition after installation?

[ismailkhalil]

Many many thanks
and it's very helpfull

[exploding_apple]

It worked fine but after restarting the computer, when I type swapon in terminal, it does not show me the partition. I open the parted app but there I have to turn swap on again, as it is closed. Swap does not load on boot. Any solutions?

[ianaustria]

Which do you recommend, to increase swapfile or increase swap partition?

[pororo]

So it worked find and i updated the fstab but nw the boot time is taking longer time to boot. I can live past it but I'd like to know if it can be fixed

[itsbaby]

Everytime I boot up the swap if always off, please tell me

[waterbuoy]

trying add a mounted swap file or partition to LIVE suse tw usb? made it work except does not auto mount itself. tks liked 'it'. 1ST!Burst. old 2011 laptop and got it back (windows boot) from dead after toggling virtual machine bios settings.

[satyendrasahu]

I followed the process but still it did not allow to resize by dragging. it was going back to original size again. It is for Ubuntu 21.10