Manjaro ARH based AUR Install Query

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Manjaro ARH based AUR Install Query

PeterKW opened this issue 4 years ago · 6 comments

I have downloaded Swapspace from the AUR successfully: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/swapspace

I'm not quite sure what to do next to get it going. The swapspace folder exists in /var/lib/ as attached but I don't see swapspace running or making a difference to my swap file even after a restart so I'm assuming I have missed something. man -l doc/swapspace.8 outputs No such file or directory with No manual entry for swapspace

Is there anything else to try to get it working from the AUR?

Answer 1 · 2021-02-04T11:56:02.000Z

Ah okay, do I just need to uncomment some of the lines in /etc/swapspace.conf ?

Answer 2 · 2021-02-04T12:52:52.000Z

Assuming everything is installed correctly by the AUR package it should just work, no config file editing required. The AUR package is maintained by @chungy Pinging in case he has specific advice. Have you tried checking the output of: systemd status swapspace If it says disabled, try: systemd enable swapspace

Answer 3 · 2021-02-04T22:18:36.000Z

It says -bash: systemd: command not found which I don't really understand. It doesn't look like systemd is disabled in my settings gui?
Anything else that I could try?
Thank you very much

Answer 4 · 2021-02-05T03:01:01.000Z

Whoops sorry wrong command.

systemctl status swapspace

Most likely it's running and just not doing anything.

Answer 5 · 2021-02-05T03:39:10.000Z

Thank you very much. I pressume it will need to activate the next time I startup my computer and it'll make the swapfiles required without me doing anything more?

$ systemctl status swapspace
● swapspace.service - dynamic swap manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/swapspace.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:swapspace(8)

systemctl enable swapspace
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/swapspace.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/swapspace.service.

swapon
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/swapfile file 512M 512M -2

Answer 6 · 2021-02-05T15:05:27.000Z

Now that you've enabled it, it should start itself on next reboot. To start it immediately, use: systemctl start swapspace

After that it should just work, yes. Please reopen this issue if it doesn't.