roramirez/create_swap.sh

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Create a swap file

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create_swap.sh

	fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
	chmod 600 /swapfile
	mkswap /swapfile
	swapon /swapfile
	echo "/swapfile none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

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roramirez commented May 10, 2018

In Centos need use

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=4096 bs=1MiB

instead of
fallocate -l 4G /swapfile

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