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Shell script for adding swap to Linux
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#!/bin/sh | |
# Usage: curl <url to the raw script> | sh -s <size in MB> | |
# size of swapfile in megabytes | |
swapsize=1024 | |
if [ $1 ]; | |
then | |
swapsize=$1 | |
fi | |
# does the swap file already exist? | |
grep -q "swapfile" /etc/fstab | |
# if not then create it | |
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then | |
echo 'swapfile not found. Adding swapfile.' | |
fallocate -l ${swapsize}M /swapfile | |
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=${swapsize} bs=1MiB | |
chmod 600 /swapfile | |
mkswap /swapfile | |
swapon /swapfile | |
echo '/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0' >> /etc/fstab | |
else | |
echo 'swapfile found. No changes made.' | |
fi | |
# output results to terminal | |
cat /proc/swaps | |
cat /proc/meminfo | grep Swap | |
free -m |
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