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Created January 26, 2019 16:57
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add swap to linux [ec2]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17173972/how-do-you-add-swap-to-an-ec2-instance
sudo /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
sudo /sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
sudo chmod 600 /var/swap.1
sudo /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1
add this line to /etc/fstab:
/var/swap.1 swap swap defaults 0 0
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