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Dwayne

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Jul 7, 2026, 4:36:56 AM (13 days ago) Jul 7

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I have run into a very odd situation on 2 different LM 22.3 systems. I use the guide to create a larger swapfile to help with memory when using gnome-boxes for my VMs. I follow the guide to the letter. But, I did NOT reboot, I just used the sudo swapon /swapfile command. Then I immediately checked to see the new swapfile was there. It was. Before doing anything else, I also enable zswap as well (also to help with VM usage). I followed that all the way through, rebooted then verified with grep -r . /sys/module/zswap/parameters/ and all looked good. But, for some reason, after completing the zswap, my swapfile showed in the File System folder as the correct size, but if I looked at the system info, it showed no swap for the system and swapon --show returned nothing. After much trial and error, I found that in order for the swapfile to stay I had to create the new swapfile then reboot before setting up zswap.

I don't know if this has happened to anyone else or not, but it may be helpful to just have people just reboot instead of using the sudo swapon /swapfile command. I never tried to set up the zswap first, but maybe I should have.

But, this is an incredible library of information and I wanted to do my part to try and help keep it as accurate and helpful as possible.

Thanks so much for all the work you put into this.

Beheerder Computertip

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Jul 7, 2026, 4:42:34 AM (13 days ago) Jul 7

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Thanks for this information! I haven't had any such problem on my machines yet, but I'll look into it....