If you don't know the page size that your machine uses, you can look it up with *getconf PAGESIZE*.
-To set up a swap file, it is necessary to create that file before initializing it with *mkswap*, e.g. using a command like
+Aside from *mkswap --file*, it is also possible to create the swapfile manually before initializing it with *mkswap*, e.g. using a command like
....
# dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1MiB count=$((8*1024))
to create 8GiB swapfile.
-Please read notes from *swapon*(8) about *the swap file use restrictions* (holes, preallocation and copy-on-write issues).
+In such a case, please read notes from *swapon*(8) about *the swap file use restrictions* (holes, preallocation and copy-on-write issues).
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