{"id":4386,"date":"2014-07-28T12:16:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bodhost.com\/kb\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:04:31","slug":"increase-swap-file-partition-on-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/kb\/increase-swap-file-partition-on-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase swap File Partition on eNlight (or plane Linux Server)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"274\" class=\"wp-image-4387\" src=\"https:\/\/bodhost.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/enlight-cloud-hosting.png\" alt=\"enlight-cloud-hosting\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>While increasing Swap File on the Server, first you need to check there should be enough free space (larger than new swap size) available on the partition.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><b>Follow the below steps:<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Step 1:- #dd if=\/dev\/zero of=\/swapfile bs=1024 count=1572864\r\n\r\nThis command is for creating the free space for file \/swapfile to 1.5 GB\r\n\r\nPlease note that count is the block size calculated as (1024 * 1.5)\r\n\r\nStep 2:- #mkswap \/swapfile\r\n\r\nStep 3:- #chown root:root \/swapfile\r\n\r\nStep 4:- #chmod 0600 \/swapfile1\r\n\r\nStep 5:- #swapon \/swapfile1\r\n\r\nStep 6:- #vi \/etc\/fstab\r\n\r\nEnter this at the end of file \"\/swapfile1 swap swap defaults 0 0\"\r\n\r\nStep 7:- # mount -a or\r\n\r\nStep 8:- free -m (check swap file size for your confirmation)\r\n\r\nStep 9:- This has been done Cheers !!!\r\n<\/pre>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Incoming searches related to how to increase swap file size in linux<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>change swap file size linux<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>linux swap file size ubuntu<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>swap partition size linux<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While increasing Swap File on the Server, first you need to check there should be enough free space (larger than new swap size) available on the partition. Follow the below steps: Step 1:- #dd if=\/dev\/zero of=\/swapfile bs=1024 count=1572864 This command is for creating the free space for file \/swapfile to 1.5 GB Please note that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[589,588],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","tag-change-swap-file-size-linux","tag-swap-partition-size-linux"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Increase swap file partition on eNlight<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While increasing Swap File on the Server, first you need to check there should be enough free space (larger than new swap size) available on the partition.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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