[solved] swapfile warning on boot

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Hi

I made a swapfile and it works. But when booting, I get a warning:

“warn Aktivate swapfile failed”

The swapfile still works. Where is the problem?

Here are the commands I used:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=2048
sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

Then put this line in fstab:

/swapfile    none    swap    sw      0 0

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[Member PPC]

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I tested the procedure explained here: https://itsfoss.com/create-swap-file-linux/
and it works great, but I did not try adding the swapfile to fstab.
Please note that the file is created without the use of dd,but fallocate in this tutorial:

sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

You can try to live dangerously and activate the swap file only when you think it’s needed, ord add “gksudo swapon /swapfile &” to be run at startup (but you’ll have to always enter you password)…

Try following itsfoss procedure and see if it works for you…

P.

[Forum Admin Dave]

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Not 100% certain but I think your fstab entry needs to read as follows.
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0

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Ok, thanks for the two tips!

@Dave
No, the error came with your version too 🙁 But I kept looking 🙂

@PPC
I have not tried your code because I read somewhere that it is better to use dd. However, I don’t know why 😉 But I think it works with your version too 🙂

Now the solution:

The entry in fstab must be further up, I inserted it at the end. I then found this forum post, see link. Now everything is ok, no warning and swapfile is active 🙂

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/reply/46098/

It was interesting that I only received the warning, but the swapfile was activated anyway. Maybe it was activated later and I missed the log entry?

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thanks for following up to report the solution
(and, a hats off salute to @Askic, for paving the way)

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