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how to change swap space on ubuntu

# Disable Swap
sudo swapoff /swapfile
# Edit Swapfile to desired size, 2G, 4G etc
sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
# Enable Swap again
sudo swapon /swapfile
# You can check your new swap with
sudo swapon --show
Posted by: Guest on October-31-2021
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how to create a swap file

# Step1: Create a swap file

# If you want to add more swap, 
# replace 1G with the size of the swap space you need
sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile 
# If fallocate is not installed or you get an error message saying 
# fallocate failed: Operation not supported then use the following 
# command to create the swap file
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=1048576 # if line 5 executed then leave it
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
sudo nano /etc/fstab
# Paste this in it
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
sudo swapon --show
# Enjoy!
# Credit Linuxize
Posted by: Guest on August-26-2021

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