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create 2GB swapfile on Linux
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create_2gbswapfile.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eu
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile bs=1M count=2048
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 •
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Usage

curl -SsfL git.io/create_2gbswapfile | bash

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