How to make a USB stick swap disk?
1) Make sure your USB stick is connected. In a terminal type:
sudo blkid
It will list all your connected drives. Search for your USB stick you want to use as swap and copy the UUID (everything inside these quotes UUID="XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX"
).
This represents the individual name of your device.
Also note the /dev/XXX
point of your device.
2) Now unmount your device by typing:
sudo umount /dev/XXX
(where XXX represents your device name)
3) Format your USB stick as swap, e.g. by terminal
sudo mkswap /dev/XXX
(<-- be sure to use the correct device name here or you'll probably end up formatting the wrong drive!)
or simply use GParted.
4) Now you have to edit your /etc/fstab file, so type
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab
and enter the following
UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX none swap sw,pri=5 0 0
(for all the Xs, use the UUID number you got by typing sudo blkid
)
5) Now type
sudo swapon -a
That's it, this should already work.