diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 96d49ef2d..194d35742 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -2070,4 +2070,6 @@
 * dashboard: looks for search string in app title as well
 * Add vaapi caps for transcoding
 * Fix issue where the long mongodb database names where causing app indices of rocket.chat to overflow (> 127)
+* Do not resize swap if swap file exists. This means that users can now control how swap is allocated on their own.
+
 
diff --git a/setup/start/cloudron-resize-fs.sh b/setup/start/cloudron-resize-fs.sh
index 5081d955a..f9aeb398a 100755
--- a/setup/start/cloudron-resize-fs.sh
+++ b/setup/start/cloudron-resize-fs.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ set -eu -o pipefail
 
 readonly APPS_SWAP_FILE="/apps.swap"
 
+if [[ -f "${APPS_SWAP_FILE}" ]]; then
+    echo "Swap file already exists at /apps.swap . Skipping"
+    exit
+fi
+
 # all sizes are in mb
 readonly physical_memory=$(LC_ALL=C free -m | awk '/Mem:/ { print $2 }')
 readonly swap_size=$((${physical_memory} > 4096 ? 4096 : ${physical_memory})) # min(RAM, 4GB) if you change this, fix enoughResourcesAvailable() in client.js