Sam@lemmy.ca to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoHow much swap?message-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up136arrow-down1message-squareHow much swap?Sam@lemmy.ca to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarez3bra@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down1·1 year agoDon’t even bother with a SWAP partition. Create an empty file on your / partition so you can grow/shrink it as needed. did if=/dev/zero of=/SWAP bs=1024m count=4 mkswap /SWAP swapon /SWAP
minus-squaremygreatlimbo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoNot a golden rule. For example btrfs has limited support for swapfiles.
minus-squarez3bra@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoOf course there’s no golden rule. But I’ve found this one to be pretty useful ! Didn’t know about btrfs limitations though, thanks for the hint!
minus-squarefloat@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoThis is the way! There’s a catch with swap files on encrypted disks and hibernation but that’s quite a special case. Edit: forgot to mention zswap, the compressed version of swap.
Don’t even bother with a SWAP partition. Create an empty file on your / partition so you can grow/shrink it as needed.
did if=/dev/zero of=/SWAP bs=1024m count=4 mkswap /SWAP swapon /SWAPNot a golden rule. For example btrfs has limited support for swapfiles.
Of course there’s no golden rule. But I’ve found this one to be pretty useful ! Didn’t know about btrfs limitations though, thanks for the hint!
This is the way! There’s a catch with swap files on encrypted disks and hibernation but that’s quite a special case. Edit: forgot to mention zswap, the compressed version of swap.