How To Add Swap Space on Debian 9

Posted by linuxize on Dec 29, 2018 5:50 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. Usually when running Debian virtual machine a swap partition is not present so the only option is to create a swap file.

This tutorial outlines the steps necessary to add a swap file on Debian 9 systems.

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