I have two hard disks on my laptop,
- 256 GB SSD (nvmeOn1)
- 1 TB HDD (sda)
Installed Ubuntu, below is how my partition table looks like:
nvmeOn1 EFI 100 MB Microsoft reserved partition 16 MB Basic data partition 217.35 GB / 20 GB Recovery 1 GB Unallocated 14.34 MB sda Basic data partition 465.76 GB /opt 9.54 GB /usr 37.96 GB linux-swap 6 GB /home 412.26 GB
I want to change swap partition from HDD to SSD. Here's the steps:
1. Boot the machine with Ubuntu Live USB
2. Delete existing linux-swap partition on HDD (Resize any existing partition to make use this new unallocated partition)
3. Resize / partition on SSD to make space for new swap partition
4. Create new swap partition
5. Shutdown, remove Ubuntu Live USB and restart the machine
6. Now in Ubuntu, open terminal and run the command below
$ sudo blkid # output would be something like this /dev/nvme0n1p6: UUID="581446b5-7fab-46b0-ba3a-569c0fc42be3" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="646e1aba-ebff-40e7-86c2-155211f485d5"
7. Look for "swap" and copy UUID from the newly created swap partition
8. Edit /etc/fstab file by running command below (don't forget to backup first)
$ sudo nano /etc/fstab
9. Replace the old UUID for swap with the new one.
10. Save the file and reboot the machine.
To verify, we can use free command
$ free # output total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 32774452 1315660 30136320 34844 1322472 31009776 Swap: 6292476 0 6292476
Or swapon -s command
$ swapon 0s # output Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/nvme0n1p6 partition 6292476 0 -2
This is how my new partition table looks like:
nvmeOn1 EFI 100 MB Microsoft reserved partition 16 MB Basic data partition 217.35 GB / 14 GB linux-swap 6 GB Recovery 1 GB Unallocated 14.34 MB sda Basic data partition 465.76 GB /opt 9.54 GB /usr 43.96 GB /home 412.26 GB
Thanks for the command, Is it possible to do this via GUI?
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