Option 1: If you have bigger than 16gb USB/SSD/HDD. Enable swap and expand partition to full size.
First check to see if you have swap enabled or not by free command:
Then:
Open Gparted, it will ask for root password, Locate your drive, you will see a 16gb used space and a big not used at the end,
Right click on the unused partition and create new partition, Type : Swap make the size you want ( 1Gb to ...) and move it to the end of drive. Apply.
Then right clcik on the primary 16gb partition and resize/move , resize it to the desired (better to give it all). Apply
Now right click on the swap partition and get the info, copy the UUID
open /etc/fstab with
Some thing similar to this :
UUID=cdba7b01-5ae6-4104-9a6e-f723b8bd87ac none swap sw 0 0
save and close gedit.
now in your terminal type :
check it with free command in terminal
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 8171388 3020388 2637404 142044 2513596 4647472
Swap: 8123388 0 8123388
Edit.
Option2 : If you have 16GB usb/ssd/hdd (Credit to osnwt)
And you dont want/need swap partition and expanding primary partition:
Just open /etc/fstab with
#UUID=cdba7b01-5ae6-4104-9a6e-f723b8bd87ac none swap sw 0 0