How To Add Swap Space on Ubuntu 18.04

Posted by linuxize on Nov 29, 2018 7:52 AM 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. This tutorial covers the steps necessary to add a swap file on Ubuntu 18.04 systems.

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



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