If you tell the installer to leave a particular partition alone it will not use it. I think if you pre create a swap partition it will reuse that. On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 3:27 PM der.hans wrote: > Am 02. Mar, 2020 schwätzte James Mcphee so: > > moin moin, > > > TECHNICALLY you can use a swapfile, but i've seen that people have > problems > > with that for some versions of systemd. > > I think a swapfile on the encrypted partition won't work. > > I supposed I can pre-create a partition, and have the installer leave that > alone. > > ciao, > > der.hans > > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 1:10 PM der.hans wrote: > > > >> moin moin, > >> > >> I need to install on a laptop. > >> > >> I'm using Ubuntu Bionic image. Full disk encryption is mostly required, > so > >> I'm trying to go with that. It's creating a 1GB swap partition, which is > >> not sufficient to park 16GB of RAM. I believe this means that > hibernation > >> will not work. > >> > >> I would like hibernation to work as this laptop will seldom be > >> disconnected long enough to drain the battery, and not needing to do > full > >> restarts would be quite useful. > >> > >> Using the automagic partitioning I don't see a way to carve out more > swap > >> space. > >> > >> Am I overlooking something or does it require setting up the encryption > >> partition, LVM, etc. from scratch? > >> > >> ciao, > >> > >> der.hans > >> -- > >> # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org > >> # Southern California Linux Expo March 5th - 8th in Pasadena > >> # https://socallinuxexpo.org/ > >> # "I have faith in debian-legal." -- Ted Gould > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > > > -- > # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org > # Southern California Linux Expo March 5th - 8th in Pasadena > # https://socallinuxexpo.org/ > # "I never let schooling get in the way of my education." -- Mark > Twain--------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss