Manually Creating a Swapfile

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I've seen a few people asking how to create a swap file for pli image, vti image etc... Have already posted these instructions somewhere on the forum, but putting them in a new thread to hopefully make it easier for people to fine

Anyway, this is what you should do (worked for me).

First off, telnet in to the box using your favourite telnet programme.

Then, type the following command (after count, enter the size of file you want. In example below, it is a 128mb swap - 1024 x 128 = 131072):

dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/usb/swapfile bs=1024 count=131072

Then, set up a linux swap area:

mkswap /media/usb/swapfile

Now, to activate the swap space immediately, type:

swapon /media/usb/swapfile

Now, activate the swap file to load when the vu duo loads, we need to edit the fstab file. To do this, type the following command to edit the fstab file:

vi /etc/fstab

Add the following line to the file:

/media/usb/swapfile  swap                 swap       defaults              0 0

Now, when the box restarts, the swap file should automatically be enabled...

To verify that it has worked correctly, type the following command in a telnet session:

free

This should give you some information similar to below:

              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:       140848       135964         4884            0          564
 Swap:       131064         1848       129216
Total:       271912       137812       134100