SWAP in file

Commands

#Create a static file with 16GB
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=$(expr 16 \* 1024)
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out

#Fix file mask
chmod 600 /swapfile

#Prepare the file to use as swap
$ mkswap /swapfile
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 16777216 KiB
no label, UUID=f75cc8f9-78d2-4ea3-945a-eefbd59568ac

FSTAB

$ echo \/swapfile none swap sw 0 0 >> /etc/fstab