While trying to RPM install Oracle XE in a CentOS 7 VM running inside Virtualbox 5.1 I get the following error message:
This system does not meet the minimum requirements for swap space. Based on
the amount of physical memory available on the system, Oracle Database 11g
Express Edition requires 2048 MB of swap space. This system has 1279 MB
of swap space. Configure more swap space on the system and retry the
installation.
How can I increase the swap space?
So far I have tried with lvm
following the instructions here and here without success. I must start with an already provisioned minimal CentOS VM so tweaking the original image is not an option.
A swapon -s
command informs me:
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/dm-1 partition 1310716 0 -1
and lvdisplay
output is:
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/cl/swap
LV Name swap
VG Name cl
LV UUID rdNgH4-Sili-NpwP-Ny3S-xtU9-MlEC-ttE5JI
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time localhost.localdomain, 2016-12-19 22:50:56 +0000
LV Status available
# open 2
LV Size 1.25 GiB
Current LE 320
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 8192
Block device 253:1
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/cl/root
LV Name root
VG Name cl
LV UUID H737Lq-OMhE-F9Lf-BlTg-3PL1-0T7O-1Ciusi
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time localhost.localdomain, 2016-12-19 22:50:56 +0000
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 12.39 GiB
Current LE 3172
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 8192
Block device 253:0
and df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/cl-root 13G 9.4G 3.1G 76% /
devtmpfs 907M 0 907M 0% /dev
tmpfs 920M 4.0K 920M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 920M 8.7M 912M 1% /run
tmpfs 920M 0 920M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 1014M 239M 776M 24% /boot
tmpfs 184M 0 184M 0% /run/user/1002
tmpfs 184M 0 184M 0% /run/user/1001
tmpfs 184M 12K 184M 1% /run/user/1000
tmpfs 184M 0 184M 0% /run/user/2
/dev/sr0 57M 57M 0 100% /run/media/vagrant/VBOXADDITIONS_5.1.33_120529
vagrant 102G 77G 26G 76% /vagrant
Edit:
Content of /etc/fstab
/dev/mapper/cl-root / xfs defaults 0 0
UUID=41388da5-fc65-4a34-a3da-58bb81daf744 /boot xfs defaults 0 0
/dev/mapper/cl-swap swap swap defaults 0 0
Output of vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
cl 1 2 0 wz--n- 13.64g 4.00m
Best Answer
You can increase your swap space by first shrinking the root logical volume to free up space, which you can then reallocate to the swap logical volume. You need to increase your swap LV by 769 MB to get it up to 2048 MB, and your root LV has 3.1 GB free, so you can try the following:
-r
option causes the filesystem to be resized as well:lvresize -L -769M -r c1/root
swapoff
lvresize -L +769M c1/swap
swapon