[root@mydns ~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1878 404 1474 0 58 155
-/+ buffers/cache: 189 1688
Swap: 4095 0 4095
[root@mydns ~]#
[root@mydns ~]#
[root@mydns ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/swapfile bs=1M count=1800
1800+0 records in
1800+0 records out
1887436800 bytes (1.9 GB) copied, 2.21269 s, 853 MB/s
[root@mydns ~]# chmod 600 /root/swapfile
[root@mydns ~]# mkswap /root/swapfile
mkswap: /root/swapfile: warning: don't erase bootbits sectors
on whole disk. Use -f to force.
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1843196 KiB
no label, UUID=4980f059-8287-465c-b67c-f741c024a115
[root@mydns ~]# swapon /root/swapfile
[root@mydns ~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1878 1775 102 0 26 1527
-/+ buffers/cache: 221 1656
Swap: 5895 0 5895
[root@mydns ~]# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda2 partition 4194296 0 -1
/root/swapfile file 1843192 0 -2
[root@mydns ~]# cat /etc/fstab
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Wed Dec 21 19:54:24 2016
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
UUID=3ebbb596-88d8-4af2-9dd9-e3f0f4939e0d / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=53fdc162-7068-4002-9da5-3127bf44fdf4 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=887194ed-0c27-4339-9308-e79cd5de4d96 swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/root/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0