Add extra SWAP in Linux
If, by any chance, you happen to run out of SWAP space in Linux and you desperately need it, you can use a temporary file to supplement:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap1.swp bs=1024 count=512K
mkswap /swaptemp.swp
swapon /swaptemp.swp
Now verify if the image file was successfully mounted:
cat /proc/swaps
For novice not evident, that ‘bs=1024′ and ‘count=512K’ are not mandatory and what whis do swap file 500M.
I’m think, article need be more verbose.
Again, ‘bs’ = ‘block size’ and ‘count’ = ‘count’. His values must be exchanged, so:
[code]dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs= count=[/code]
P.S. Do your site have BBCode’s?
P.P.S. Advise make up notations of convention.
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[code]dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=<block_size> count=<blocks_count>[/code]