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create 4GB swapfile on Linux
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create_4gbswapfile.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eu
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile bs=1M count=4096
sudo mkswap /var/swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /var/swapfile
sudo swapon /var/swapfile
sudo cat /proc/swaps
echo "/var/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
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Tiryoh commented Jul 12, 2019

Usage

curl -SsfL https://git.io/create_4gbswapfile | bash

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Thanks for this.

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