You could create a swap file rather than a dedicated partition: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=8192 $ mkswap /swap $ swapon /swap $ ech

You could create a swap file rather than a dedicated partition: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=8192 $ mkswap /swap $ swapon /swap $ echo "/swap swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab