Taken from Ploi:
- Turn off all running swap processes:
swapoff -a
- Resize swap
fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
(change 1G to the gigabyte size you want it to be) - CHMOD swap:
chmod 600 /swapfile
- Make file usable as swap
mkswap /swapfile
- Active the swap file
swapon /swapfile
To verify your swap size run the following command and you will see the swap size: free -m