Tag: Create new swap file to Linux

to add new swap file to Linux just follow the below steps , in my case i will add 32GB and i am not using LVM :-

• just create file by the below command :-
• touch /new.swap
• Write on the file :-
•  dd if=/dev/zero of=/new.swap bs=1024 count=33554432
• Format the file :-
• mkswap /new.swap
• Add the file to the system as a swap file.
• swapon /new.swap
• finally add it to fstab :-
• /new.swap none swap sw 0 0