How to add Swap File
1G
with 2G
.faillocate
is not installed or if you get an error message saying fallocate failed: Operation not supported
then you can use the following command to create the swapsudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=1048576
2. Only the root user should be able to write and read the swap file. To set the correct permissions type:
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
3. Use the
mkswap
utility to set up the file as Linux swap area:sudo mkswap /swapfile
4. Enable the swap with the following command:
sudo swapon /swapfile
/etc/fstab
file and append the following line:/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
5. To verify that the swap is active, use either the
swapon
or the free
command as shown below:sudo swapon --show
Output
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/swapfile file 1024M 507.4M -1
sudo free -h