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Quick Add 5GB Swap File, and add to fstab
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Quickly Add 5GB Swap File
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swap bs=1024 count=5242880;
mkswap /mnt/swap;
chown root:root /mnt/swap ;
chmod 0600 /mnt/swap ;
swapon /mnt/swap;
echo "/mnt/swap swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab;
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