Revision as of 13:22, 1 July 2020

Description

Test installation of zram-generator only (disabled by default)

We recommend to remove the following packages. The swap-on-zram implementations in those packages have minor conflicts with zram-generator, but mostly they'll just contribute to user confusion.
```
sudo dnf remove anaconda zram
```
Install zram-generator:
```
sudo dnf install zram-generator
```
Reboot your machine
Verify that swap-on-zram is not active. zramctl should produce no output and swapon should only list your pre-existing swap partitions (if you had any) and no zram device. In other words, everything should look like it usually does, because zram-generator isn't enabled by default. Example:
```
$ zramctl 
$ swapon
NAME       TYPE      SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/vda1  partition 500M   0B   -2
```

The zram-generator is installed without issues, and is not activated after a reboot.

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 {{QA/Test_Case
-|description=Test installation zram-generator only (default disabled)
+|description=Test installation of `zram-generator` only (disabled by default)
 |actions=
 <ol>
-<li> Recommend removing the following packages. The swap-on-zram implementations in those packages have minor conflicts with `zram-generator`, but mostly they'll just contribute to user confusion.
+<li> We recommend to remove the following packages. The swap-on-zram implementations in those packages have minor conflicts with `zram-generator`, but mostly they'll just contribute to user confusion.
 <pre>sudo dnf remove anaconda zram</pre>
 <li> Install `zram-generator`:
@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 </pre>
 <li> Reboot your machine
-<li> Verify that swap-on-zram is *not* active.
+<li> Verify that swap-on-zram is '''not''' active. `zramctl` should produce no output and `swapon` should only list your pre-existing swap partitions (if you had any) and no `zram` device. In other words, everything should look like it usually does, because `zram-generator` isn't enabled by default.
+ Example:
 <pre>$ zramctl
 $ swapon
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 /dev/vda1  partition 500M   0B   -2
 </pre>
-Everything should look like it usually does, because zram-generator isn't enabled by default.
 </ol>