The Best Way to Free Create Swap Partition in Linux [Partition Manager]
By Rodin | Follow | Last Updated February 25, 2020
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A Swap partition is very useful when your Linux is running out of memory. Here MiniTool tells you what a Swap partition is and how to create a Swap partition.
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What Is Swap Partition
As you know, swap partition is an important part of Linux. When installing Linux system, you may need to add a swap partition to your Linux. So, what is Swap Partition?
In fact, Linux Swap partition refers to the virtual memory partition under Linux. When physical memory of the system is not enough, the Swap partition can release a part of the hard disk space so that the current running programs can use it. The disk space which is released may come from some procedures that are not used for a long time, and the released disk space is temporarily saved to the swap partition.
When running those procedures, it allows to recover data that is saved to memory from a Swap partition. In other words, when the operating system needs data from the disk, Swap partition exchanges a part of data in main memory with a portion of data on the disk. The virtual memory technique breaks the limitation of physical memory in function, and it enables a computer to execute programs and manipulate data larger than the actual physical memory space. What’s more, it can ensure that each process is not affected by other program.
In Swap partition size, if Swap space is too large, disk space will be wasted, and if Swap space is too small, then the system may go wrong. Therefore, it is recommended to be 2 times larger than the physical memory. In Linux, it is limited to be at most 2 GB.
Why to Create Swap Partition
The above content introduce some important information about Swap partition, and now you may ask why to create a swap partition in Linux. Swap partition has three main advantages:
- It can leave some disk space when the computer memory is filled up completely.
- It can move some rarely-needed application and files away from the memory.
- It allows you to hibernate system. If there is no Swap partition, the computer is impossible to hibernate.
- The Swap partition can improve the performance of computer to some degrees.
Due to those merits, Swap partition is really useful and important in Linux. After installing system, you may want to create Linux partition. Here look at an example from forums.linuxmint:
«I just installed Linux mint 11 yesterday to solve my graphics chipset problem. But I forgot to create a swap partition. So my question is how can I create swap partition without reinstalling Linux mint? Also I have 4 GB ram on my laptop and I don’t use hibernation function on my laptop so do I really need swap? The space I reserved for swap partition is 4 GB & it is shown as unusable space in partition s/w. Thanks in advance.»
When encountering such a case, how to create a Swap partition? Don’t worry. Please read on and you can get a very easy way to achieve this aim.
How to Create a Linux Swap Partition
When searching «create Swap partition» in Google, you can find some methods, but it seems that some ways are a little complex. Fortunately, here is a very simple way introduced to you, that is to using a third-party partition and disk management software.
Thereinto, MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition is popular in managing Linux partition and disk for free. And it makes these Linux partitions intuitive on your computers so you can do Linux partition management easily. As a reliable and professional Swap partition manager, it can be used to copy partition, change partition type ID, do surface test, wipe partition and create partition.
Here are the steps about creating a Linux Swap partition.
Firstly you need to free download MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition and install it to your computer. Then launch this application to its main interface to do partition creation.
Step 1: Right click the unallocated space and select «Create» or click «Create Partition» from the left «Operations» menu after selecting the target unallocated space.
Step 2: Then you can select «Linux Swap» from the «File System» drop-down menu. Here you can set partition logical or primary and also set partition label. Moreover, during the process, you can change partition size. Here please set partition size as 4 GB by dragging the partition bar or by inputting 4096 in the «Partition Size» textbox.
Step 3: At last, click «Apply» to execute all operations.
In conclusion, with the assistance of MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition, you can create Swap partition quickly and easily. Just only with three steps, you are able to achieve your aim. Please try this freeware at once.
How to Create Linux Partition in 4K Hard Drive under Windows? [Partition Manager]
By Tina | Follow | Last Updated May 17, 2019
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What is Linux? Do you know how to create Linux partition in 4K hard drive in Windows? Why do you need to create Linux partition on 4k hard drive? This post will show you the solutions with a step-by-step guide.
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What Is Linux?
Linux is a Unix-like and mostly POSIX-compliant computer operating system (OS) which is assembled under the model of free and open-source software development and distribution. Moreover, you can get it via internet or other ways and its source code can be modified.
Linux is full free, and it is fully compatible with POSIX1.0 standard which can make you run Windows procedures via corresponding simulators. Moreover, Linux provides an X-Window system which is similar to Windows graphical interface. Linux has many different versions and they all use Linux kernel.
And Linux can be installed in many kinds of computer hardware equipments, such as panel computers, routers, video or game consoles, table top computers, and table top computers. Therefore, due to the advantages of Linux, Linux is widely used.
Why to Create Linux Partition in 4K Hard Drive
When mentioned creating Linux partitions in 4K hard drive, you should know what 4K hard drive is and why to create a Linux partition. Hard drive industry is facing a great revolution that the traditional sector size is changed from 512B to 4096B. In fact, 4K hard drive refers to the disk of which 4K sector and 4K cluster are aligned, namely 4K alignment which is specialized at SSD and the advanced formatted hard drive.
Consequently expanding sector size from 512B to 4096B will greatly improve hard drive performance as well as hard drive space usage rate. Therefore, you choose a 4K hard drive to make full use of disk space and improve computer performance.
Thus, do you know how to create Linux partition in 4K hard drive under Windows?
How to Create Linux Partition in 4K Hard Drive under Windows?
As to Linux creation partition, you can take a piece of professional partition software to create Linux partition in 4K hard drive. Thus, MiniTool Partition Wizard is strongly recommended.
MiniTool Partition Wizard is designed to optimize partition and disk use with its powerful features.
So create Linux partition in 4K hard drive under Windows, you can download MiniTool Partition Wizard Free to continue.
And we will show you how to create Linux partition in 4K hard drive under Windows with step-by-step guide.
Step 1: Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard
- Install MiniTool Partition Wizard and launch it.
- Enter the main interface of MiniTool Partition Wizard.
Step 2: Create partition Linux under Windows
- Select the unallocated space on the hard drive.
- Right-click the unallocated space and choose Create from the context menu.
Step 3: Set partition parameters
- In the popup window, please set some partition parameters.
- The File System of Linux partition should be Ext. And here we set the file system as Ext4 as an example.
- Click OK.
Step 4: Confirm the changes
- Preview the changes.
- Click Apply to confirm the changes.
When the process is finished, you have created Linux partition under Windows. And you can install Linux to this partition.
Bottom Line
In conclusion, do you know what the Linux is and how to create Linux partition in 4K hard drive under Windows?
And if you have any better solution to create Linux partition under Windows, you can share it on the comment zone.
And if you have any problem of MiniTool Partition Wizard, you can contact us via the email [email protected] and we will reply to you as soon as possible.