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Issues with waagent.conf and swap

See original GitHub issue

I am currently trying to set-up swap on my Ubuntu 16 VM. I am following the standard procedure and have set waagent.conf accordingly:

ResourceDisk.Format=y
ResourceDisk.Filesystem=ext4
ResourceDisk.MountPoint=/mnt/resource
ResourceDisk.EnableSwap=y
ResourceDisk.SwapSizeMB=64000

Just restarting the service does nothing. After rebooting, if I instantly type free -m I can see the swap. But a moment later it is gone. When I re-check waagent.conf also ResourceDisk.Format is set to no automatically: ResourceDisk.Format=n.

On my other vms it works flawlessly. The only difference is, that on this VM I have an encrypted disk, lsblk output:

sdb                                        8:16   0   678G  0 disk
└─sdb1                                     8:17   0   678G  0 part
  └─xxx                                  253:1    0   678G  0 crypt /mnt/resource

Any ideas?

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

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psingercommented, Aug 24, 2018

@hglkrijger @ejarvi It partly explains what happens, but I am still not sure how to enable swap then.

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hglkrijgercommented, Aug 22, 2018

@psinger let us know if that does not answer your question.

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