How to add Swap memory on Ubuntu
2 min readFeb 18, 2021
Create a file and preallocate size. In the following example we allocate 4GB
$ sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
The prompt will return:
$ ls -lh /swapfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0G Feb 8 08:50 /swapfile