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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1786996@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your showed interest in fixing that page.

I understand the frustration you show in your comment. But the community
help wiki is simply a collection of tutorials which community members
have contributed over many years. Some pages are decently maintained by
their authors or others, some pages are less so.

We simply do not have enough volunteers in the docs team to take
responsibility for the help wiki. (We try to keep the *official* docs
reasonably up to date.)

Yes, there is a reason for the barrier, i.e. that an approval is needed
to get edit rights. A couple of years ago we didn't have that procedure,
and the wiki was about to be destroyed by spammers. My advice is that
you email a team administrator to call their attention to your
application.

Thanks for your understanding.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1786996

Title:
  Important typo in "How do I add a swap file?" instructions

Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I was very confused why my swap file wasn't working after I followed
  instructions at
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#How_do_I_add_a_swap_file.3F

  The problem was that the instructions mostly say 1GiB but then also
  have a line (which I blindly copied-and-pasted) that said 4GiB
  instead.

  In the section "Example of making a swap file", this line needs to be
  fixed:

  $ echo '/mnt/4GiB.swap swap swap defaults 0 0' | sudo tee -a
  /etc/fstab

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