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I just created new swap space but Unable to use this new swap space while I have deleted the previous swap space. So please help

I have created a new swap space and deleted the previous swap sapace using windows partion and Ubuntu GParted help. Now when I enable it i.e. swapon using Gparted, now able to use it i.e no processing is shown in system monitor as with previous swap space. How I can use it as previous swap space

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Ryan Quinn • February 15, 2018

I would recommend running the swapon command directly from the command line as it may be outputting errors that you are not seeing through gParted.

sudo swapon [path to mountpoint]