I'll try but reading about it I found out that it's not possible to create swap files in btrfs... so I'll keep looking until I found a solution or resize my swap partition, but I can't do that for now, any help is welcome !
Grettings from Cuba. LordFord. 2017-09-27 9:00 GMT-04:00 Marvin Renich <[email protected]>: > [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 > >
