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Linux, disabling - enabling - Adding swap

Linux, disabling - enabling - Adding swap

# Checking which disk swap is on -s # Disabling swapoff /dev/md0 # Enabling swapon # Adding sudo mkdir /media/swap sudo mkdir /media/swap sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/swap/swapfile.img bs=8048 count=1M sudo mkswap /media/swap/swapfile.img sudo vim /etc/fstab sudo swapon /media/swap/swapfile.img cat /proc/swaps

Linux, disabling - enabling - Adding swap

# Check which disk it is on

swap -s

# Disable
swapoff /dev/md0

# Enable

swapon

# Add

sudo mkdir /media/swap

sudo mkdir /media/swap

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/swap/swapfile.img bs=8048 count=1M

sudo mkswap /media/swap/swapfile.img

sudo vim /etc/fstab

/media/swap/swapfile.img swap swap sw 0 0

sudo swapon /media/swap/swapfile.img

cat /proc/swaps

 

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