Timeline for How do you add swap to an EC2 instance?
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| Jun 27, 2019 at 17:44 | comment | added | Sõber | Upvoted this answer because it is the shortest and does the job. However, swapfile chmod 600 command should be added. | |
| Feb 5, 2016 at 20:38 | comment | added | Mike Purcell | Can confirm this works on a t2.micro instance. I did mine @ /mnt/swap though as I like a clean root. | |
| Feb 4, 2016 at 15:10 | comment | added | David Levesque |
@Hussain It will create the swap in the root filesystem since the path is /swapfile. But you could also mount another filesystem and create the swap file there, e.g. /mnt/blah/swapfile.
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| Feb 4, 2016 at 6:19 | comment | added | Hussain | But from which of my filesystem it will take the space to create Swap? | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 16:56 | history | answered | David Levesque | CC BY-SA 3.0 |