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Create file system swap file
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swap_file.md 
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/myswapfile bs=1M count=1024
ls -l /mnt/myswapfile
sudo chmod 600 /mnt/myswapfile
sudo mkswap /mnt/myswapfile
sudo swapon /mnt/myswapfile

sudo vi /etc/fstab

Add:

/mnt/myswapfile               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

sudo swapon -s
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