What is the name of the default swap partition?

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cosmicgrape
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I deleted my swap partition because I have an SSD and have been experiencing an unusual amount of hard restart-requiring system errors. I suspect this is the cause so I need to reformat my swap partition. Is it just named 'swap'? I don't know what else could be causing these errors. Thanks.

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Why do you think the swap partition is faulty? In normal conditions, the system should not swap. Anyway, there was no need to delete anything: 'sudo swapoff -a' disables swapping on all swap devices and files. Also, swap is not "formatted". It is not a filesystem.

I am not sure what you mean by "name of the swap partition". Maybe the first field in the related line of /etc/fstab? You can specify the device there, e.g., "/dev/sda1".

What are the "errors" you are referring to? Lines in a log file? If you show them, you may receive help to diagnose the problem.

Platoxia
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Try running 'sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda' and show the output here. If you have a swap partition it should show it. You can use swap files now instead of a partition but it will depend entirely on how you setup your system during the install.