Here is the free -m output
[prem@myserver: /home/prem]$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 991 218 85 267 687 360
Swap: 0 0 0
I have added swap space to my cent os 7 machine by using following commands
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=2048
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
Now the swap space has increased to 2GB
[prem@tuatahi: /home/prem]$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 991 284 69 265 638 292
Swap: 2047 5 2042
But I guess in order to make these changes permanent, I need to add fstab entry for my swap space. Here are the contents of fstab
UUID=ef6ba050-6cdc-416a-9380-c14304d0d206 / xfs defaults 0 0
I am not sure how to add the swap space in terms of UUID.
Best Answer
There is no UUID for a file. Simply enter it as:
Since it's directly on the root filesystem, there's no worry about the mounting order.