<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>First, why do you want swap to be used at all? If it is used, it means RAM is not enough, and you get really bad performance on spindle disks, less so on SSDs.<br><br></div>Second, if you are using swap a lot, then it would shorten the lifespan of your SSD.<br>
<br>Third, yes, please try parted as the message says. To do this, just type:<br><br></div>sudo parted<br><br></div>Then enter:<br>print devices<br></div>You will see all the drives that parted knows about.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:53 PM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Here's a question for the pros here...<div><br></div><div>My Lenovo laptop came with a 1TB HDD, and a 16gig sSata drive. It originally shipped with Windows 8 but I eventually wiped the whole 1TB and installed Ubuntu 13.10 on it. Runs great.</div>
<div><br></div><div>One thing I noticed is that the 16gig mSata is not being used. I would like to use it a my /swap partition. As it happens, there is no swap partition on the system.</div><div><br></div><div><div>jeff@Quorra-Ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l</div>
<div>[sudo] password for jeff: </div><div><br></div><div>WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
Disk /dev/sda: 16.0 GB, <a href="tel:16013942784" value="+16013942784" target="_blank">16013942784</a> bytes</div><div>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1946 cylinders, total 31277232 sectors</div><div>Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes</div>
<div>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes</div>
<div>I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes</div><div>Disk identifier: 0x8bb65f34</div><div><br></div><div> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System</div><div>/dev/sda1 1 31277231 15638615+ ee GPT</div>
<div><br></div><div>WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes</div>
<div>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors</div><div>Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes</div><div>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes</div><div>I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes</div>
<div>Disk identifier: 0x8bb65f33</div><div><br></div><div> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System</div><div>/dev/sdb1 1 1953525167 976762583+ ee GPT</div><div>Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>Here's the df:</div><div><br></div><div><div>jeff@Quorra-Ubuntu:~$ df -h</div><div>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on</div><div>/dev/sdb2 275G 5.2G 256G 2% /</div>
<div>none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup</div><div>udev 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev</div><div>tmpfs 794M 1.5M 792M 1% /run</div><div>none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock</div>
<div>none 3.9G 472K 3.9G 1% /run/shm</div><div>none 100M 108K 100M 1% /run/user</div><div>/dev/sdb1 93M 3.3M 90M 4% /boot/efi</div><div>
/dev/sdb3 642G 101G 509G 17% /home</div><div>10.42.1.95:/volume1/video 8.1T 5.4T 2.7T 68% /home/jeff/Videos/Athenavids</div><div>10.42.1.95:/volume1/music 8.1T 5.4T 2.7T 68% /home/jeff/Music/Athenamusic</div>
<div>10.42.1.95:/volume1/NetBackup 8.1T 5.4T 2.7T 68% /mnt/Athenabackups</div></div><div><br></div><div>As you can see, there is no swap partition. I _thought_ I set up the mSata as the swap, during the install, but apparently not.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please note that this machine has UEFI, but SecureBoot is turned off. Damn Windows 8....</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have any ideas on how to set up the mSata as the swap partition?<br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><div><br></div></div>
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