Increasing swap space

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1. Increase the LinuxVM disk size
   • Make sure the VM is powered off
   • In VMware Player or Workstation, Select the LinuxVM and click  "Edit virtual machine settings".
   • Select Hard Disk (SCSI) under the Hardware tab
   • Click "Expand..."
   • Increase the "Maximum disk size (GB)" by the amount of swap space to create.
   • Click Expand
2. Delete the old swap space
   • Start the LinuxVM ("Play")
   • Open the Disk manager: Applications, System Tools, Disk Utility
   • Click on the SCSI disk
   • Identify which partition contains the current swap space, and note device (e.g., /dev/sda2)
   • Open a terminal, and unmount the current swap space: #sudo swapoff /dev/sda2 
     • You will need to enter the root password ("data")
   • Delete the swap partition
3. Create the new swap space
   • In Disk Utility, click on the free space (probably to the right)
   • Create partition of type swap
   • Note the partition name (probably /dev/sda2)
4. Mount the new swap space
   • #sudo swapon /dev/sda2 
   • Check with Resource monitor that the swap space is increased
   • Wait for hard disk to stop flashing (probably some configuration going on); for ~100GB, this will take many minutes, even on an SSD.
5. Get the indentifier (UUID) of the new swap space
   • List the UUID: #sudo blkid /dev/sda2
   • Copy the UUID: select, right-click, Copy:  
6. Record the new swap space in the partition table
   • Open the partition table file: #sudo gedit /etc/fstab
   • Update the UUID for the swap space
   • Save
7. Verify
   
   • Reboot the LinuxVM
   • Click on Resource monitor; the swap space is listed on the right.

Increasing Swap Space

Will this work? http://www.oradba.ch/2012/05/resize-swap-space-on-linux/.

O2 http://www.virtualitworld.co.in/add-swap-file-in-centos-6-4/.

An article that may not do a good job: https://www.rootusers.com/how-to-increase-the-size-of-a-linux-lvm-by-expanding-the-virtual-machine-disk/.