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How much swap?
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Don't even bother with a SWAP partition. Create an empty file on your / partition so you can grow/shrink it as needed.
Not 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.