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Change swap size after upgrade

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I have just upgraded my cpu/mobo/RAM and I would like to now increase the swap size without having to reformat my entire drive. Is this possible? My hard drive set up is as follows.

mount 

/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) 

proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) 

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) 

none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) 

none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) 

none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) 

udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) 

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) 

tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755) 

none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880) 

none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) 

none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)

/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) 

binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/raph/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=raph)

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes

    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors

    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

    Disk identifier: 0x0007f9dc



Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda1   *        2048      499711      248832   83  Linux

/dev/sda2          501758   390721535   195109889    5  Extended

/dev/sda5          501760   390721535   195109888   8e  Linux LVM



Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu-root: 198.8 GB, 198784843776 bytes

    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24167 cylinders, total 388251648 sectors

    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

    Disk identifier: 0x00000000



Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu-root doesn't contain a valid partition table



Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu-swap_1: 1006 MB, 1006632960 bytes

    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122 cylinders, total 1966080 sectors

    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

    Disk identifier: 0x00000000



Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu-swap_1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

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answered 2 Years ago ickump · Accepted Answer

Back up your data before you do follow the steps below. This usually works without any issues but that doesn't account for bugs, power failures, etc.

Use e2resize to shrink the root logical volume (/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root) first.

Then use lvresize to shrink the logical volume to the size of the filesystem you just shrunk.

Now when you use vgdisplay, you'll notice there's some free space (extents) in that volume group.

Temporarily disable your swap with swapoff -a

You can use lvextend to expand /dev/mapper/ubuntu-swap_1 by with the extents you've just gained from shrinking the root LV.

Create and re-enable your swap with mkswap /dev/mapper/ubuntu-swap_1 && swapon -a