# Increase Swap Size

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/increase-swap-size/200219>\
**Category:** balenaOS\
**Tags:** raspberrypizero\
**Created:** [October 16, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/increase-swap-size/200219 "2020-10-16T22:02:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![20k-ultra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/20k-ultra/32/3435_2.png) [@20k-ultra](https://forums.balena.io/u/20k-ultra)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/increase-swap-size/200219/6 "2020-10-16T23:00:01Z")

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Hey Wester, unfortunately this is not advised on a device that is using SD card storage as it’ll corrupt it much sooner. If you do however want to explore this more I found this forum post ([SWAP files inside container](https://forums.balena.io/t/swap-files-inside-container/113664/14)) where another user is trying to do the same thing. Specifically check out the 12th comment ([SWAP files inside container](https://forums.balena.io/t/swap-files-inside-container/113664/12)).

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