Add Linux swapfile as virtual memory
By technese - Last updated: Friday, November 11, 2011 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment
Add a 1 GByte swapfile:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024
$ mkswap /swapfile
$ swapon /swapfile
to make it available on boot, edit /etc/fstab file and include: /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
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