mkswap

A cheatsheet for modifying swap on a linux machine Cheatsheet # See attached swaps sudo swapon --show # Create/Attach/Resize swap sudo swapoff /swap.img sudo fallocate -l 8G /swap.img sudo chmod 600 /swap.img sudo mkswap /swap.img sudo swapon /swap.img # Quick and dirty add swap to fstab echo '/swap.img none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab Swappiness # See swappiness cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness # Set swappiness=1 sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=1 # Before you tee, you should grep for it instead....