Adding an additional swap file on Linux
Adjust your call to dd to get the size you want. [root@host ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=1048576 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out [root@host ~]# sync [root@host ~]# mkswap /swapfile Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1073737 kB [root@host ~]# swapon /swapfile [root@host ~]# echo “/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0″ >> /etc/fstab
