[I'm subscribed; please don't CC me.] > 2017-09-26 19:20 GMT-04:00 bartender <[email protected]>: > > 1 Gb swap partition since I have 8 Gb physical RAM available > > > > When you invoke hibernate your system tries to stuff contents of your 8GB > > RAM into your 1GB swap partition. Do you see how that works? > > > > I doesn't but at least you get an error message. Backup everything then > > reinstall with 8GB swap partition.
* Leonel Salazar <[email protected]> [170926 19:25]: > Hmmm... I was just reading about that this evening, I think that might be > the real problem... maybe the others suffering this issue have similar > situation... I'll try to have more swap available and test again... You don't need to backup and reinstall. Read the man page for mkswap; you can create a swap file rather than a swap partition. I.e. # fallocate --length 12G /swap # mkswap /swap will create a 12GiB file, /swap, that can be used as a swap file. In order for it to be used by hibernate, I think it must be in /etc/fstab. You can probably create it, edit fstab, turn on the swap file with swapon, and then test hibernate without first rebooting. I don't know whether hibernate will use both swap files, choose the larger, or choose the first (or something else). It might be a good idea to comment out the fstab entry for the 1G swap partition and turn it off with swapoff before attempting to hibernate. HTH...Marvin
