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Create and apply a 5GB swapfile 

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=5242880 && chown root:root /swapfile1 && chmod 0600 /swapfile1 && mkswap /swapfile1 && swapon /swapfile1

Add Swapfile to fstab 

echo "/swapfile1 swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

TODO: add nofail

Raspberry Pi OS

Edit the file /etc/dphys-swapfile and modify the variable CONF_SWAPSIZE to 0.