Question
sudo swapon /swapfile error
- Posted on November 23, 2017
- CentOSApplications
Asked by wyatt Biker
Following tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/additional-recommended-steps-for-new-centos-7-servers
When I get to the swapon command it fiels.
$ sudo swapon /swapfile swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument
Docs should be fixed to tell people to use: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=4096 bs=1MiB instead of fallocate. Anyway another tutorial also says its bad idea to use swapfile for SSD systems
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fallocate works fine on other OSes (in fact it’s literally recommended in the mkswap man page), so I’m guessing the reason for this is because the root partition is using xfs on the CentOS 7 images.
I’d also agree with you that if you’re up to adding 4 gigabytes of swap, you’re way better off upgrading the droplet :)
Sí si funciona, debes hacer un reboot. Mira:
1.- Creamos el swapfile: sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
2.- Verificamos el espacio reservado en swapfile: ls -lh /swapfile [root@159 ~]# ls -lh /swapfile -rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4.0G Mar 18 03:36 /swapfile
3.- Enable Swap y con permisos restringidos: chmod 600 /swapfile
4.- verificamos que sea así: ls -lh /swapfile [root@159 ~]# ls -lh /swapfile -rw-------. 1 root root 4.0G Mar 18 03:36 /swapfile
5.- Configuramos el archivo de intercambio: mkswap /swapfile [root@159 ~]# mkswap /swapfile Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4194300 KiB no label, UUID=e83cdb0e-97f6-4f74-b71d-56c077387b14
6.- mkswap /swapfile [root@159 ~]# swapon /swapfile swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument
No aparece nada!!!: [root@159 ~]# swapon -s
Reinciamos el servidor: reeboot
ssh root@XXX.XX.XXX.XXX PASS
[root@centos-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc1-01 ~]# free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3790 1198 1629 9 963 2330 Swap: 0 0 0
[root@centos-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc1-01 ~]# fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
[root@centos-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc1-01 ~]# ls -lh /swapfile -rw-------. 1 root root 4.0G Mar 18 03:54 /swapfile
[root@centos-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc1-01 ~]# chmod 600 /swapfile
[root@centos-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc1-01 ~]# ls -lh /swapfile -rw-------. 1 root root 4.0G Mar 18 03:54 /swapfile
[root@centos-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc1-01 ~]# mkswap /swapfile Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4194300 KiB no label, UUID=810db92a-a575-4652-9ed0-a731f7fad584
[root@centos-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc1-01 ~]# swapon /swapfile Filename Type Size Used Priority /swapfile file 4194300 0 -1
[root@centos-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc1-01 ~]# swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /swapfile file 4194300 0 -1
[root@centos-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc1-01 ~]# free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3790 1221 1574 9 994 2307 Swap: 4095 0 4095