Can I add swap partition after I installed my system already?|

[John1776]

Hi, I installed Manjaro KDE on my laptop (UEFI). I just used the most default options during the install and I don’t have a swap partition so it’s not really working for me when my laptop is not hybernating. Can I add to an already installed system?

[Aragorn]

If you have enough space left for an extra partition, then yes. If not, then you might want to create a swap file instead ─ see the Wiki for more information.

[John1776]

I have 200gigs left so I dont think thats a problem also I have 16gigs of RAM. But how do I do that?

[megavolt]

Yes, you need to add 3 things:

1. A swap partition or swapfile
2. A resume=UUID=<long_number> to the kernel parameter in /etc/default/grub
3. Add resume to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Detailed information: Power management/Suspend and hibernate - ArchWiki

That should be an easy one:

Not restoring after hibernating

Thanks. I finally did it. Here is how: (Replace “[UUID_of_the_swap_partition]” with the actual UUID) In /etc/fstab added: UUID=[UUID_of_the_swap_partition] none swap defaults 0 0 In /etc/default/grub added: resume=UUID=[UUID_of_the_swap_partition] to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX In /etc/mkinitcpio.conf added: resume to HOOKS (after udev) sudo mkinitcpio -P && sudo update-grub That’s all. Hibernated and it resumed!