Swap partition after installation

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Hello all, is it possible to make a swap partition AFTER I have done installation?
because I didn’t allot any space for swap while installation.
since I have 4GB RAM so I don’t want it to freeze up when enough memory isn’t present

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Hi!
It can if you have any allocate space in your disk using gparted or any other partition manager, after that, you need to add the swap partition to /etc/fstab and enable swap.
If you don have any allocate space, you can create a swapfile in your system, it work the same way.
Creating and Enabling a swap partition
Creating and Enabling a Static Swapfile

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I would recommend to consider systemd-swap.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/swap

Here is a similar thread:

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for zRam/zSwap right? yeah already seen it just wanted to know anything important beforehand.

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Why does it say,
Memory: 0MB ? :thinking:

Thank you for the steps.

status 
systemctl status systemd-swap.service
● systemd-swap.service - Manage swap spaces on zram, files and partitions.
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-swap.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (exited) since Sun 2020-08-30 15:11:54 IST; 1h 43min ago
   Main PID: 846 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
     Status: "Swap unit activation finished"
      Tasks: 0 (limit: 4558)
     Memory: 0B
     CGroup: /systemd-swap.service

Aug 30 15:11:49 Homelaptop systemd-swap[846]: INFO: Removing files in /var/lib/systemd-swap/swapfc/...
Aug 30 15:11:49 Homelaptop systemd-swap[846]: INFO: Zswap: backup current configuration: start
Aug 30 15:11:49 Homelaptop systemd-swap[846]: INFO: Zswap: backup current configuration: complete
Aug 30 15:11:49 Homelaptop systemd-swap[846]: INFO: Zswap: set new parameters: start
Aug 30 15:11:49 Homelaptop systemd-swap[846]: INFO: Zswap: Enable: 1, Comp: zstd, Max pool %: 25, Zpool: z3fold
Aug 30 15:11:49 Homelaptop systemd-swap[846]: INFO: Zswap: set new parameters: complete
Aug 30 15:11:49 Homelaptop systemd-swap[846]: INFO: Writing destroy info...
Aug 30 15:11:49 Homelaptop systemd-swap[846]: INFO: swapD: pick up devices from systemd-gpt-auto-generator
Aug 30 15:11:49 Homelaptop systemd-swap[846]: INFO: swapD: searching swap devices
Aug 30 15:11:54 Homelaptop systemd[1]: Started Manage swap spaces on zram, files and partitions..
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Currently or let’s say at the moment you not need swap space as your programs are happy with the RAM you have. :grin:

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time to make them unhappy now :crazy_face:

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