Technical Tip: Adding an additional SWAP disk

Description

This article describes how to add an additional SWAP disk.

Scope

FortiSIEM.

Solution

Add a new HDD of 20 to 30 GB from the Hypervisor.

Under FortiSIEM:

lsblk # to review the available disks.  fdsik /dev/vdX (or sdX - the newly added device) n # to create a new partition  Utilize the whole space of the new drive. As a type choose: 82 Linux swap  w # to write the changes

mkswap /dev/vdX # to create the new swap disk swapon /dev/vdX

To make it permanent.

blkid # to find the UUID simmilar to the example below  /dev/mapper/rl-swap: UUID="b4486d6e-a991-4575-9373-cc7c9c8a9c3b" TYPE="swap"  echo "UUID=b4486d6e-a991-4575-9373-cc7c9c8a9c3b swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab