There's still a problem in it,
> Sorry, that shoud've been
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=size of=yourswapfile
> where size can be 1M, 1G , etc
You haven't mentioned the size, because "bs=size" is only the block size i.e. the size of chunks in which the data will be read and not the file size. So it should be,
# dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=<size> count=<size in KB>
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