How to create swap partition on Amazon AWS Micro Instance Linux

Submitted by Bora Gunes Dogan on Wed, 08/29/2012 - 11:41

Here are some quick steps for creating swap partition on Amazon AWS Micro Instance:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024

mkswap /swapfile

swapon /swapfile

add the following to /etc/fstab to enable the swap on boot:

/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0

 

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