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How to create Swap File on Linux
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- Create a file and give it same space as you would to a swap partition
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$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapPartitionAsFile bs=1M count=2048
$ # reduce file permissions
$ sudo chmod 0600 /swapPartitionAsFile
- Use make swap to set file as swap
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$ sudo mkswap /swapPartitionAsFile
- Enable the file as swap using swapon
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$ sudo swapon /swapPartitionAsFile
- Add the file to be auto-mounted
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$ sudo vi /etc/fstab
/swapPartitionAsFile swap swap defaults 0 0