linux-swap

There is a lot of conflicting information out there on how to create a swapfile correctly. Although these guides (should) all work perfeclty fine, I spent the time to research and find out what is actually the most correct.

In summary: make sure to use the dd command to create the swapfile, and create an fstab entry that looks similar to /swapfile none swap sw 0 0. In this article, I will go more in-depth into the correct steps to create a swapfile on Linux, and explain each step.

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