Adding Swap Files
If you do not have free disk space to create a swap partition and you do need to add swap space urgently, you can use a swap file as well. From a performance perspective, it does not even make that much difference if a swap file is used instead of a swap device such as a partition or a logical volume, and it may help you fixing an urgent need in a timely manner. （如果没有多余的磁盘空间来增加交换分区，可使用交换文件代替。从性能方面来看，swap file跟swap device没多少区别）
To add a swap file, you need to create the file first. The dd if=/dev/zero of=/ swapfile bs=1M count=100 command would add 100 blocks with a size of 1 Mebibyte from the /dev/zero device (which generates 0s) to the /swapfile file. The result is a 100 MiB file that can be configured as swap. To do so, you can follow the same procedure as for swap partitions. First use mkswap /swapfile to mark the file as a swap file, after which you can use swapon /swapfile to active it.
例如：把原来的swap空间大小从2147MB添加到2247MB
[root@rhel7 ~]# free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1840 91 1603 8 144 1605 Swap: 2147 0 2147 [root@rhel7 /]# touch swapfileTest [root@rhel7 /]# dd if=/dev/sda of=/swapfileTest bs=1M count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 1.45588 s, 72.0 MB/s [root@rhel7 /]# mkswap /swapfileTest mkswap: /swapfileTest: warning: don't erase bootbits sectors (dos partition table detected). Use -f to force. Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 102396 KiB no label, UUID=c011c102-304a-4cb2-8106-2c69500a82a8 [root@rhel7 /]# swapon /swapfileTest swapon: /swapfileTest: insecure permissions 0644, 0600 suggested. -----有提示，需要设置权限#chmod 0600 /swapfileTest [root@rhel7 /]# free -m --比原来的2147添加的100MB total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1840 91 1398 8 350 1598 Swap: 2247 0 2247 [root@rhel7 /]#
将配置写入到etc/fstab文件中，否则重启系统后不生效：
# vi /etc/fstab，增加如下行
/swapfileTest swap swap defaults 0 0