Re: Can't hibernate Toshiba laptop

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]>:

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> > 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
>
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