Increase swap file space in Linux

Disk Drives, Linux 1 Minute

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/tmpswap bs=1k count=50000
# cd /home
# chmod 600 tmpswap
# mkswap tmpswap
# swapon tmpswap

Above adds 500 MB swap space.

# free -m ; Check the swap space created.

You can delete the swap space whenever needed
# cd /home
# swapoff tmpswap
# rm -rf tmpswap
# free -m to recheck swap space.

Published by Geetu R. Vaswani

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