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Create Swap Disk

To see which disk is available for swap disk use.

lsblk
blkid
df -Th

Format the disk.

fdisk /dev/xvda

Create a swap disk.

sudo mkswap -f /dev/xvda
sudo swapon -s /dev/xvda

Check if swap disk is available.

lsblk
free -m 
cat /proc/swaps
cat /proc/meminfo
swapon -s
top
vmstat
vmstat 1 5

GCP Projects List

Here’s how to get a list of GCP projects.

gcloud projects list

Result:

PROJECT_ID            NAME     PROJECT_NUMBER
your-project-id-xxxx  servers  xxxxxxxxxxxx

Use awk to display the project id only.

gcloud projects list | awk '{print $1}'

Result

PROJECT ID
your-project-id-xxxx

GCP Bucket Size

Here are the commands to find out the bucket size in GCP.

gsutil du -s gs://bucket-name/