# I keep getting errors when updating

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 9, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-keep-getting-errors-when-updating/373634 "2025-07-09T20:40:53Z")\
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Updates  
After a few conversations with Claude, here’s what’s happening:

I initially had this

```shell
sudo swapon --show
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/swapfile file 2G 1G -2

```

That was still causing the error.

So I was able to increase it to 4GB, I believe:

```shell
sudo swapon --show
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/swapfile file 4G 714.4M -2

```

Now, here’s what’s strange: while I was doing this, I went back to the update page and to my surprise, everything was updated…  
How is that possible, if it was showing me that error? 😕

Anyway, I now at least understand that a swapfile is related to disk space, not RAM. I’m using DigitalOcean’s droplet 1GB RAM, 25GB disk.

So I guess having the 4GB swapfile is ok for now?  
But still, why did it update, even after showing me that error?

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