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Swap
What is Swap?
Create a (temp.) swapfile and add it to swap
Create a swapfile with blocksize 1024 and 2GB
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap/swapfile bs=1024 count=2MFormat the file and set permissions
mkswap /swap/swapfile chown root:root /swap/swapfile chmod 600 /swap/swapfileAdd the swapfile to swap
swapon /swap/swapfile
Remove a swapfile from swap
Turn off the swapfile (used swap will be moved to other swap or memory, might take a while)
swapoff /swap/swapfile
linux/general/swap.1534929979.txt.gz · Last modified: 2018/08/22 11:26 by lunetikk
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