swapfile 

 

Create a file for swap usage as shown below.

 

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/swap-fs bs=1M count=512

512+0 records in

512+0 records out

 

# ls -l /home/swap-fs

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 536870912 Jan 2 23:13 /home/swap-fs

 

Use mkswap to setup a Linux swap area in the /home/swap-fs file that was created above.

 

# mkswap /home/swap-fs

Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 536866 kB

 

Once the file is created and has been setup for Linux swap area, it is time to enable the swap using swapon as shown below.

 

# swapon /home/swap-fs

 

Add the following line to /etc/fstab and reboot the system for the swap to take into effect.

 

# vi /etc/fstab

/home/swap-fs swap swap defaults 0 0

 

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