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diff --git a/content/posts/swap-file-linux.md b/content/posts/swap-file-linux.md index e2dc626..9b45cf6 100644 --- a/content/posts/swap-file-linux.md +++ b/content/posts/swap-file-linux.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ --- title: "Creating a Swap File on Linux" date: 2019-06-10T10:03:00 +lastmod: 2020-08-27T01:15:00 tags: ["Formats", "Guides", "Linux", "Servers", "Snippets", "Software"] --- @@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ The notes here work with a 1GB swap file, but feel free to change these if need Firstly we're going to create the file, set permissions and enable the swap file: ``` -sudo fallocate -l 1G /swap +sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=1024 status=progress sudo chmod 600 /swap sudo mkswap /swap sudo swapon /swap @@ -37,3 +38,5 @@ To make this change permanent, you'll need to write the value to your `sysctl.co ``` echo "vm.swappiness=10" | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf ``` + +* **Edit 2020-08-27:** Replaced `fallocate` instructions with `dd`, caused issues when trying to `swapon`.
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