<div dir="ltr">Thanks, Khalid, I will consider what you said. I guess I wanted the mSata as swap since I really have no other use for a 16gig drive when everything else is on the 1TB.<div><br></div><div>The laptop has 8 gig RAM, which I hope to expand to 16gig soon, so with any luck I won't use the swap much.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Giles Malet replied to me personally as for some reason he couldn't reply to the group, and he had some good points as well, which I will copy to the group...</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">First off given the warnings about GPT we should trust what fdisk reports. Instead use:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">parted -l</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">In my case, I got:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> Number Start End Size File system Name Flags</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> 1 1049kB 16.0GB 16.0GB linux-swap(v1) HFS</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">which says that I did manage to configure the mSata as a swap partition. Giles also said to confirm this with </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">swapon -s</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">which showed:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> Filename Type Size Used Priority</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> /dev/sda1 partition 15637500 2036 -1</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">So I do indeed have swap setup on the mSata, despite what fdisk was telling me.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Long story short, Giles said don't use fdisk on a GPT disk! GPT is a newer format than the old DOS partition table that fdisk supports.</span><br>
</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">So thanks Giles and Khalid for your help!</span></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 January 2014 15:54, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.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"><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>
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<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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