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Arch Linux: Create Swap Partition

Example of creating a 1.5GB swap partition on Arch Linux

fallocate -l 1536M /swapfile
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1536 status=progress
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile

Edit /etc/fstab file

...
/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0

Mount partition 

# mount -a
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