April 15, 2014
Sometimes you can need to add more swap and you can’t change the partitioning of your disk.
You can add a file to you swap that we be handle like a disk partition. I recommand to create that file on a ssd disk, because when you server start to swap, it’s not a good side.
But for some specific case you may have to to it:
We create a 1G file and add it to the swap
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024 count=1048576
mkswap /swap
swapon /swap
echo "/swap swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab