By user123
I am trying to use the command fallocate to create a swapfile for memory purposes. Every time I use the command: sudo fallocate -1 2G /swapfile, the message I get back is: fallocate: invalid option – ‘1’.
How do I resolve this problem?
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Replace -1 with -l (a lowercase L):
-l, --length length
Specifies the length of the allocation, in bytes.
So the command should be:
sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
Hello, all
You can follow the steps on how to do that here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-20-04
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
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