Thread: Change Swap location

i want change location of swap ssd (which gather poor location) mechanical hard drive (storage). tried unmount storage shrink partition , create swap partition can't seem unmount it. below fstab :

code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.  #  # use 'blkid' print universally unique identifier  # device; may used uuid= more robust way name devices  # works if disks added , removed. see fstab(5).  #  # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>  proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0  # / on /dev/sda3 during installation  uuid=fb91ba53-76d5-41af-aa6f-24035b6de7a4 /               ext4 discard,noatime,nodiratime,   errors=remount-ro 0       1  # /boot/efi on /dev/sda1 during installation  uuid=6ee3-8f18  /boot/efi       vfat    defaults        0       1  # /home on /dev/sda4 during installation  uuid=89427c18-2e81-494e-baef-933d3216d968 /home           ext4 discard,noatime,nodiratime,    defaults        0       2  # swap on /dev/sda5 during installation  # uuid=f531caff-a236-4f4c-a401-3b7fbc067c30 none            swap    sw              0       0  # storage /dev/sdb1  uuid=b3aaffec-03c9-40dd-b836-35d9346019cb /media/storage	ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 2    tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

use command "swapoff" turn off swapping, can modify fstab. use "swapon"

both require sudo

initialize new swap partition "mkswap"

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