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Commands to create swapfile on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu droplet
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digital-ocean-swap.sh
sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
swapon -s
free -m
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porimol commented Jun 13, 2016

Hi @cobyism ,
How may I permanently add the swap file in my system?
Now I'm facing the problem is If I restart or shutdown the server the swap file remove or does not run! Then I have to have need re-create the swap file as your command.

Thanks

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echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

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