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 <
PLUGd@lufthans.com> 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 <PLUGd@lufthans.com> 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
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