Blog Post: Create new swap file to Linux

to add new swap file to Linux just follow the below steps , in my case i will add 32GB and i am not using LVM :- just create file by the below command :- touch /new.swap Write on the file :- dd if=/dev/zero of=/new.swap bs=1024 count=33554432 Format the file :- mkswap /new.swap Add the file to the system as a swap file. swapon /new.swap finally add it to fstab :- /new.swap none swap sw 0 0 Thanks Osama