# Create a swap file

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**Category:** Product support\
**Created:** [May 16, 2018, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/create-a-swap-file/3158 "2018-05-16T07:31:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/create-a-swap-file/3158/5 "2018-05-16T14:08:39Z")

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I checked with the team and the feedback is that this isn’t really supported anymore, resin in 2013 was a very different beast from what it is today – they also reitterated that swap on media like an SD card is not a great idea, especially in production.

That said if it’s critical for your use case, you could look at [https://github.com/muchlearning/make-swap/](https://github.com/muchlearning/make-swap/) and see if it works.

I’ll also update the blog post and add a deprecated note to it – thanks for bringing that to our attention

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