How to add swap to and Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

Question

default Ubuntu 12.04 LTS doesn\'t create swap for some reason. Is there \"proper\" way to add it after install?

root@aux3:/root# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avai         


        

Answer 1

To enable swap at the boot time (after creating the swap file as per the instructions above), add the following entry to /etc/fstab:

/mnt/swap1 swap swap defaults 0 0