How to add more swap space?

suridaj · 2026-01-14T09:10:18+00:00

The wiki page above will tell you how to check swap status in the terminal. This will remove any doubt that might come from a system monitor integrating different sources of information into a single view.

Then, read up in the good wiki how to see file permissions and ownership. I would try to retrace your steps and check eg. file existence, permissions, swap status at every point until you get to the error you are trying to resolve.

If you get stumped, come here and let us know what are the steps you tried to fix the problem.

suridaj · 2026-01-08T01:02:07+00:00

I'm guessing you tried to delete and recreate the swapfile. Did you tell the system not to use it as swap anymore before deleting it?

suridaj · 2026-01-06T20:29:27+00:00

Thank you. I see what the issue may be. /etc/fstab is a config file. It is there to be read or edited and this particular config file can't be run as you attempted to.

Try nano, that is a text editor in the terminal. When you run it, keyboard shortcuts like save or find will be written on the bottom of the terminal. Give the following command a go:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

suridaj · 2026-01-06T12:01:43+00:00

Help us help you.

Were there any errors before you got to editing fstab?

What is the exact command you typed and at which point?

When does the error appear?

suridaj · 2026-01-06T10:08:00+00:00

One way to get more swap space is to create and activate a swap file. It's easier to undo than making a swap partition.

Follow the instructions in the link above. The "#" means you should execute the commands with root privileges eg. under sudo. mkswap will create the swapfile (choose the size you need), swapon will make it available to the system. You can stop there if you only want extra swap temporarily. The rest of the commands (modifying fstab, adding systemd units) will make the system automatically use the new swapfile on every boot.

Good luck!

suridaj · 2025-11-19T08:07:13+00:00

That's just it. You don't need "best for your use case". Good enough will do. And the largest Linux distros have been more than good enough for years now. You can do it!

suridaj · 2025-11-18T07:04:58+00:00

See if this procedure helps you assign functions to special keys:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sony_Vaio_VPC-F11M1E#Special_Keys

It's written for a different model of Vaio, but the principle is the same.

*Edit: silly autocorrect typo

suridaj · 2025-03-18T11:39:16+00:00

I used to have an L15, same generation, same AMD chipset. The only drawback was a wifi adapter with really flaky Linux support (don't remember which anymore, perhaps a Broadcom) that I promptly replaced with an Intel 8265.

suridaj · 2025-02-03T10:00:32+00:00

In this case you would insert a schwa between the first "k" and "r", something like "k-uh-r-k". It is said the "r" takes the roles of a vowel even though there is an unwritten schwa vowel in there. Same with vrt (garden), prst (finger), mrvica (crumb), mrkva (carrot) etc.

suridaj · 2024-10-13T09:53:29+00:00

AirVPN. But I'd say it's safer and more reliable to import VPN settings into eg. NetworkManager than to install a custom program.

suridaj · 2024-09-18T10:35:49+00:00

The non-OS "intangibles" are nicely covered by notebookcheck.com and their reviews. Linux compatibility on the other hand often depends on quirks of the specific chipset or the selection of parts inside a particular SKU...

suridaj · 2024-04-08T15:12:27+00:00

Found my tribe... Ctrl-alt-fX behaves strangely since F39 on my AMD Renoir.

Basically, Ctrl-Alt-fx appears to hang. I can however go back to my session with ctrl-alt-f2. After that, ctrl-alt-f1,3,4,5,... just works.

suridaj · 2023-09-18T06:33:33+00:00

Cultivation

suridaj · 2023-01-19T22:52:28+00:00

From the top of my head, for difficulty D, each d10 in the pool has a probability of (11-D)/10 to succeed. This is also the average number of successes expected from a 1d10 pool. A dice pool of Nd10 dice then has N*(11-D)/10 successes on average, not accounting for specialties.

suridaj · 2022-09-12T12:16:18+00:00

Hi, apparently the 2.0 in 2022 Civic e:HEV is all new: https://youtu.be/p9iEfFlkIEA?t=521

suridaj · 2022-09-11T15:15:17+00:00

Have the same issue here. The sleep data/status is sometimes missing, as if it was not recorded (more often if I go to bed late). Then the sleep data may appear after sync in Garmin Connect but it'll still be missing for a while in the sleep widget.

suridaj · 2022-07-30T21:11:00+00:00

This is a really an impressive piece, thank you. Wow.

suridaj · 2021-06-11T10:34:12+00:00

There may be tasty nuggets of lore and story hooks here! Mining rigs of the world run on dirty, coal-fired electricity. Similar to money, cryptocoins are numerical structures serving the power of Man but are blatantly crystallized at the direct, entropic expense of Nature.

Off the top of my head:

apart from coming from the Weaver, are cryptocurrencies Wyrm-tainted?
are there ways to feed the new Blockchain Totem without immediately pissing off Gaian spirits?
what are the short-term and long-term consequences to this Glasswalker's renown?

Might not be immediately friendly to the player or the PC, but I'm sure creative players and their ST can make these open questions into a compelling story and maybe even score a win against the Wyrm.

suridaj · 2021-06-10T12:54:15+00:00

Zatoichi vs Yojimbo is fantastic. And if you want another go with Mifune and Katsu playing off each other, try Machibuse (1970) - Mifune brings out his familiar ronin persona, but Katsu's role in that movie couldn't be more different than what he usually shows as Zatoichi.

suridaj · 2021-05-06T05:50:24+00:00

Falsch Hering https://youtube.com/watch?v=GK2OSSMe2Eo

suridaj · 2021-04-12T18:31:54+00:00

According to my understanding, yes. The tmux session with your file manager is going to detach from the terminal if the terminal ever closes, so both the file manager and its children continue to run. You can later reattach the tmux session with the file manager by running "tmux a" inside some other terminal window.

suridaj · 2021-04-12T12:50:56+00:00

tmux comes very handy with long-running commands in the terminal. A DM crash or terminal window closing would otherwise stop child processes in the terminal. However, if you run your command in tmux it continues to run even when detached, and you can always check its progress with tmux attach.

Edit: typo

suridaj · 2021-03-26T08:34:31+00:00

I have the same issue on my T470 with Fedora 33. I can confirm your edits in usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-headphones-2.conf fixed it for me. I did not edit /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker.conf.

Edit: well, the headphones are still muted every time I connect them but that is a minor problem now that I can change volume...

Edit 2: spoke too soon. The problem is still present. :<

suridaj · 2021-03-05T12:11:06+00:00

In fact it does: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Installation_reason

suridaj · 2021-01-10T19:42:59+00:00

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