Hi, these are the steps I've used to add a swap partition to my Ubuntu VM on Azure:
1) Add from Azure portal a new data disk (in my case I added 2 data disk, the first is a 100 GB disk, the second one is a 6GB size for swap partition) “/dev/sda” is the Azure VM OS disk; “/dev/sdb” is the Azure VM local temporary disk; “/dev/sdc” is the first Azure VM added data disk (100GB); “/dev/sdd” is the second Azure VM added data disk (6GB); 2) create a new swap partition on /dev/sdd. Use cfdisk as follows: # cfdisk /dev/sdd partition type: Primary FS type: Linux swap / Solaris (id 82) 3) mount swap partition on boot. # nano /etc/fstab append the following line and save the file: /dev/sdd1 none swap sw 0 0 4) reboot the VM 5) create the swap partition. Use the following commands: # mkswap /dev/sdd1 # swapon /dev/sdd1 6) verify if partition has been successfully created: # cat /proc/swaps Hope this helps, Cracco -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1374166 Title: Document how to add swap space on Azure resource disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1374166/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
