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create-a-swap-file.sh
# I know a lot of people feel icky about using files instead of partitions,
# but it certainly works well enough as emergency swap space.
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile bs=1M count=3072
sudo chmod 600 /var/swapfile
sudo mkswap /var/swapfile
echo /var/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0 | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
sudo swapon -a
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