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Creates swap on debian, for example on a digitalocean vpc.
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debian-swap
#!/bin/bash
set -e
touch /var/swap.img
chmod 600 /var/swap.img
dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.img bs=1M count=4096
mkswap /var/swap.img
swapon /var/swap.img
echo "" >> /etc/fstab
echo "/var/swap.img none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
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