How to enable a SWAP file on Linux

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From this video you will learn how to create and enable a swap file on your Linux system. • Swap partition was a necessity of any linux installation in the past. Nowadays with increased amount of RAM, swap partition is not used at all by some systems. There is no need of large swap. So, you can create small swap file and if it happened that you need more swap you can easily change the size of your swap file. It is especially useful for small size SSD. • This video is primarily designed to show how to enable a swap file in Arch Linux • Installing Arch Linux in less than 10... • Create a swap file: • sudo fallocate -l 1Gb /swapfile • for F2FS or XFS: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=512 • sudo chmod 600 /swapfile • sudo mkswap /swapfile • sudo swapon /swapfile • add to /etc/fstab the line /swapfile none swap defaults 0 0 • sudo nano /etc/fstab • • Remove swap file. • swapoff -a • rm -f /swapfile • If you want to remove a swap file completely, remove the relevant entry from /etc/fstab. • • Wallpaper can be found in my Google+ Wallpaper collection https://plus.google.com/collection/Yl... • • ################################################ • Support on Patreon: / averagelinuxuser • Donate through PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/Kryvokhyzha • ################################################ • More cool Linux stuff at other social media: • Google+ - Best Linux Stuff: https://plus.google.com/+AverageLinux... • Facebook - Top Linux Tips: / averagelinuxuser • Twitter - Daily Linux News: / avglinuxuser • Website: http://averagelinuxuser.com/

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