Hello,
I try to create a swap file on my odroid and my pi 3.
I do dietpi-drive_manager → selecting the drive → create swap → 1 → enter (or tab enter) → magic things happening. After that there is no X in the “[]”. When I navigate again in the create swap menu the value is again 0. This happens everytime.
Is this normal?
if you are connected via SSH, you should be able to scroll up a little bit. There you should see some information above the blue text box. Could you share that information pls.
sudo dietpi-drive_manager
[sudo] password for nick:
[ INFO ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | Detecting drives, please wait...
[ INFO ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | - Detected mounted physical drive: /dev/mmcblk1p1 > /
[ INFO ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | - Detected mounted network drive: 192.168.178.28:/volume1/homes > /mnt/nas
[ INFO ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | - Detected mounted physical drive: /dev/sda2 > /mnt/0CB818880CB81888
[ INFO ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | - Detected unmounted drive: /dev/sda1
[ OK ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | mv .fstab /etc/fstab
[ OK ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | systemctl daemon-reload
[ INFO ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | Checking for required APT packages: e2fsprogs ntfs-3g
[ OK ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | sync
[ SUB1 ] DietPi-Services > stop
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | stop : cron
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | stop : docker
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | stop : noip2
[ SUB1 ] DietPi-Set_swapfile > Applying 1 /var/swap
[ INFO ] DietPi-Set_swapfile | Disabling and deleting all existing swap files
[ OK ] DietPi-Set_swapfile | swapoff -a
[ OK ] DietPi-Set_swapfile | Desired setting in /boot/dietpi.txt was already set: AUTO_SETUP_SWAPFILE_SIZE=0
[ OK ] DietPi-Set_swapfile | Desired setting in /boot/dietpi.txt was already set: AUTO_SETUP_SWAPFILE_LOCATION=/var/swap
[ INFO ] DietPi-Set_swapfile | Setting /tmp tmpfs size: 1891 MiB
[ OK ] DietPi-Set_swapfile | mount -o remount /tmp
where do you like to store the SWAP file on? On which file system? Can you share following pls
lsblk -o name,fstype,label,size,ro,type,mountpoint,partuuid,uuid
lsblk -o name,fstype,label,size,ro,type,mountpoint,partuuid,uuid
NAME FSTYPE LABEL SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT PARTUUID UUID
sda 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1
│ vfat ESD-USB
│ 32G 0 part 3571e14c-01 90D9-1ECC
└─sda2
ntfs Daten 899.5G 0 part /mnt/0CB81 3571e14c-02 0CB818880CB81888
mmcblk1
│ 29.1G 0 disk
└─mmcblk1p1
ext4 29.1G 0 part / 096cb72a-01 9ff8c837-9bfd-4325-a808-88d6a5ffd817
mmcblk1boot0
4M 1 disk
mmcblk1boot1
4M 1 disk
I tried to store it on mmcblk1 it’s a emmc module.
For the odroid n2+…
Do you want the same information of my pi?
If you try to create the swap space on the drive manager, you will be ask on the size. What value did you specify there? How much physical memory you have?
I have the 4GB Odroid n2+ model.
I want the auto mode.
So I Type „1“ into the field.
In case of 4GB physical memory, no SWAP file is created using the automatic option 1. We create SWAP files for system having less than 2 GB memory only. If you require a SWAP file anyhow, you need to specify the size manually
Background is that for most installations 2 GiB memory are sufficient, so the auto mode is only to assure that users don’t run into dietpi-software installation errors and all services start up. For more intense usage we cannot reasonably predict how large the swap file needs to be.
Good to know, thank you.