If you want to add new “Swap Space” to your SUSE linux system then you can follow the below steps to do it easily..

1 – First of all we should check the current size of the swap file before starting the process

cat /proc/swaps

2 – Now we should create an empty file in our system , so we are going to create a new directory as “swap“

mkdir -p /var/lib/swap

3 –  Second process should be creating a new file as “swapfile” with 128 MB file size.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/lib/swap/swapfile bs=1M count=128

4 – Initialize the swap file with below command

mkswap /var/lib/swap/swapfile

5 – Now continue with activating the new swap file

swapon /var/lib/swap/swapfile

6 – Lets check the  swap size status again , we should see the new swap file like below screen

cat /proc/swaps

7 – Any time we can disable this swap file with following command

swapoff /var/lib/swap/swapfile

8 – If we want to get this swap file as permenant then we have to add below line to “/etv/fstab” file otherwise this swap defination will be only temporary till next system reboot.

9 – After the restart process we should check the status of swap of the system to be sure it has permanent situation.