> Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 15:01:10 CEST schreef Xavier Primer:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm newbie in openSUSE ...
>>
>> I'm running openSUSE on Raspberry Pi 3 machine.
>>
>> How can I resize the swap partition ?
>>
>> Thanks, see you.
> 
> 
> I use next to the swap partition on the RPi3 a swap file.
> You create the file using:
> 
> fallocate --length ?MiB /var/swapfile
> 
> /var/swapfile can be any path to a file, replace ? with the required size.
> I
> use 512.
> Initialize the file using
> 
> mkswap /var/swapfile
> 
> If you need the swap space occasionally you can can use:
> 
> swapon /var/swapfile
> 
> otherwise make an entry in /etc/fstab like:
> 
> /var/swapfile  none  swap    sw          0 0
> 
> mount -a
> 
> will mount the swapfile right after creation, otherwise it will be made
> available in the boot process.
> 
> You can inspect the swap space using:
> 
> swapon --bytes
> 
> -- 
> fr.gr.
> 
> member openSUSE
> Freek de Kruijf
>

Hi Freek ,

Your idea work fine.

Thanks for your explained answer.

See you.
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