Create swap partition after OS installation

Question

How to make swap partition after OS installation?

Answer 1

swap can be made in two ways after the installation,

1. fdisk command

2. create a swap file by using dd command

after creating swap file or file system

#mkswap /dev/sda10

#swapon /dev/sda10

#swapon -s #To see the swap devices

by using dd command

#dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024 count=1

Which will creates the file size 1024(1GB).

#mkswap /swap

#swapon /swap

#swapon -s #to see the swap devices