By Derek Taylor at September 20, 2020

VIDEO

SHOW NOTES

In this quick tutorial, I am going to create a swap file on my Linux desktop. I'm also going to show you how to remove a swap file. Below are the commands that I used in this video:

ADDING SWAP FILE

• sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024
• sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
• sudo mkswap /swapfile
• sudo swapon /swapfile
• swapon –show
• Edit /etc/fstab and add:
• /swapfile none swap defaults 0 0

REMOVING SWAP FILE

• sudo swapoff -v /swapfile
• sudo rm /swapfile
• Edit /etc/fstab and remove the entry for the swapfile.