To add swap partitions to DEBIX, follow these steps:
The following commands need to be run with root privileges.
NOTE: The blue font is the log printout of the commands.
1. Check the size of the swap partition, type the command free -m:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1947 808 368 11 771 1039
Swap: 127 39 88
2. Log in to SSH with root, type the command dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=1048576:
NOTE: Here is an example of creating a 1G (my RAM is 2G) swap file (1024 * 1024MB*1G = 1048576).
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 30.0344 s, 35.8 MB/s
3. Create a Linux swap file, type the command mkswap /swapfile1:
mkswap: /swapfile1: insecure permissions 0644, fix with: chmod 0600 /swapfile1
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1024 MiB (1073737728 bytes)
no label, UUID=0845fdc8-a7c2-4e39-9af6-4d6cd00b900c
4.Activate the /swapfile1 swap file immediately, type the command swapon /swapfile1:
swapon: /swapfile1: insecure permissions 0644, 0600 suggested.
5.Edit the /etc/fstab file and add the following code:
/swapfile1 swap swap defaults 0 0
6.Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file, and add the following code:
vm.swappiness=10
7.Type the command reboot to reboot the system.
8.Check the size of the swap partition, type the command free -m:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1947 704 891 1 351 1163
Swap: 1151 0 1151
