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ebextensions swapfile creation script ec2 swap
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swapfile.config
commands:
000_dd:
test: test ! -e /swapfile
command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=2048 && chmod 600 /swapfile
001_mkswap:
command: mkswap /swapfile
ignoreErrors: true
002_swapon:
command: swapon /swapfile
ignoreErrors: true
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Creates a 2gb swapfile for use on amazon t2.nano instances

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romanr commented Apr 27, 2016

This will work only 1st time;
swapon /swapfile will work only until restart. swapfile is not added to fstab.
On 2nd run it will detect that /swapfile exists and do nothing.

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Changed it to just always try mkswap and swapon

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