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Created December 19, 2016 08:09
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Quick temporary swap
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swap.sh
#!/bin/bash
sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
# Verification
sudo swapon -s
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v1shwa commented Dec 30, 2016

Usage:

curl -sSL https://git.io/v1daO | bash

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v1shwa commented Jul 18, 2017 •
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If there is a problem with fallocate:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=4096 bs=1MiB

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