Talk:Full New Users Installation guide

Confused at this stage

  # mkswap root/swapfile

Edit /etc/fstab to add an entry for the swap file:

  /swapfile none swap defaults 0 0

Once the system has booted, enable the swap file:

  # swapon /swapfile

Gives an error when I reboot my Mate system in the startup about swap dependency then swapon says No such file or directory!

Hi, I just noticed the same thing. This worked for me:

Edit /etc/fstab to add an entry for the swap file:

  /root/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0

And also,

  # swapon /root/swapfile

Regards /Roger S

Actually, I think this is a more robust story:

Creating Swap File

As root use fallocate to create a swap file the size of your choosing (M = Megabytes, G = Gigabytes). For example, creating a 512 MB swap file:

  # fallocate -l 512M /root/swapfile

Set the right permissions (a world-readable swap file is a huge local vulnerability)

  # chmod 600 /root/swapfile

After creating the correctly sized file, format it to swap:

  # mkswap /root/swapfile

Edit /etc/fstab to add an entry for the swap file:

  /root/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0

Once the system has booted, enable the swap file:

  # swapon /root/swapfile