How to enable swap-drive on linux
in my post, How to enable swap-drive on linux. The solve problem "Swap Not working" on linux such as centos, Fedora 25. The open terminal, to check status of swap space ( as run root account) . swapon -s lsblk As the content below NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk ├─sda4 8:4 0 202.1G 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 105.9G 0 part / ├─sda5 8:5 0 12.9G 0 part [SWAP] ├─sda3 8:3 0 1K 0 part ├─sda1 8:1 0 487M 0 part └─sda6 8:6 0 144.4G 0 part /media/installed To turn on swap-drive /dev/sda5 swapon /dev/sda5 To make this permanent start-up on the system vim /etc/fstab As the content below /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 To check, if swap drive that work! free -h As the content below total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3.6G 2.2G 123M 321M 1.3G