Connecting Swap Partition

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BitrixVA Virtual Appliance is supplied with 256MB Swap partition, and it is not connected in the ami image by default. That is why, during operation, there could be a necessity to expand the swap partition.

As in the case with expansion of free space, the simplest - is to add an additional disk and create swap partition on it, or is to create a swap file.

For this:

connect the disk to the Virtual Appliance or create a swap file:
```
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024
```
create swap partition on disk:
```
mkswap /dev/sdb1
```
or in a file:
```
mkswap /swapfile
```
Connect swap partition:
```
swapon /dev/sdb1
```
or swap file:
```
swapon /swapfile
```
and finally, add the record about a new swap partition in /ets/fstab, to avoid manual enabling after each reloading:
```
/dev/sdb1 none swap sw 0 0
```
or add the record about the swap file:
```
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
```

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