swap partition with 4gb ram and 32gb emmc

Hybrid56

Hello

I just installed the latest version of Solus MATE. I have a pc with 32gb of eMMC and 4gb of ram. According to gparted I don't have a swap partiton, is that normal?

I tested the command
Swapon and swapon -S, it doesn't display anything

WetGeek

Hybrid56 I don't have a swap partiton, is that normal?

If that 32 GB is your only "disk drive," that's probably the problem. It's not large enough for an OS installation AND a swap partition. Or a swap file, for that matter.

Does the PC happen to be an ACER TravelMate? I have one of those, for ... well ... traveling. It fits into carry-on luggage, including motorcycle saddlebags. It's the only computer I know of that ships with a 32 GB eMMC as its only "disk." And it comes with Windows 10 installed (and plenty of bloatware)!

If you have the same PC, be aware that there's room for a 2.5" drive inside, complete with a SATA connection, just begging to have a real drive installed. I removed the bottom cover of mine and plugged in a 500 GB SSD. That's far larger than needed, but I happened to have it already. A $20 128 GB SSD is plenty good enough to make a usable computer out of it with Solus installed.

You'll also need to turn off the Windows-specific secure boot setting in the BIOS, after which you can select the new SSD you just installed when you set up Solus.

If you don't happen to have one of these laptops, let us know what you DO have, and maybe someone else can advise.

kyrios

If you don't hibernate your machine and you want a swap, you can create a swapfile.
https://itsfoss.com/create-swap-file-linux/

Hybrid56

I have an acer aspire 1 A114-32-C9VN
I opened the hood and the ram is soldered here as eMMC memory. Nothing can be changed and no additional hard drive ports.
I had windows 10 originally, but it took 25gb of space and I could no longer update it. Under Solus MATE I have 20 go free.

I only use the pc for web browsing, ftp transfer, filling out and signing pdf files. So I think 32gb is sufficient.
I have a NAS to store my documents.

WetGeek

Hybrid56 I think 32gb is sufficient.

Did you try to set up a swap partition? That was the original poster's issue.

My wife's laptop is an ACER Aspire 5, and it was trivial for me to remove her eMMC (one screw) and set it aside (in case she would ever want Windows on it again), then replace it with a new eMMC on which I installed Solus Budgie.

Different models have different issues.

EDIT: My apologies ... I misspoke (miswrote?) when I said my wife's laptop came with an eMMC. It was a NVMe. It was our first computer without an ordinary SSD (or a way to install one) and at first I believed that was what you were referring to. I now realize it was an eMMC in my TravelMate laptop, but I didn't replace that one. I left it in place, and simply don't use it. Maybe it would make a decent swap partition? I'll have to give that some thought!

Hybrid56

Problem solved, I created a 2GB swapfile by following the tutorial from kyrios