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Add more swap space to Raspberry Pi
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add-swap.md 
sudo /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
sudo /sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
sudo chmod 600 /var/swap.1
sudo /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1

Remove swap space once done

sudo swapoff /var/swap.1
sudo rm /var/swap.1
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