How to Add Swap Space on CentOS 8

Posted by linuxize on Dec 7, 2019 12:48 PM EDT
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Swap is a space on a disk that is used when the amount of physical RAM memory is full. When a Linux system runs out of RAM, inactive pages are moved from the RAM to the swap space.

Swap space can take the form of either a dedicated swap partition or a swap file. Typically, when running CentOS on a virtual machine, a swap partition is not present, so the only option is to create a swap file.

This article covers the steps for adding a swap file on CentOS 8 systems.

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