On 2020-10-28 08:47, Seabass via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I tend to prefer swapfiles. Doesn't require a partition, so it
> can be resized easily and won't require you to know the
> partition number. (Opinion: fewer partitions is just easier)
Since all disks are SCSI-analogues now, having more than 15 partitions
on a disk may get wonky. The minor device# expansion should've made
this possible, but you never know. (Counterpoint: My phone has over 20
partitions on it, probably because someone at Samsung was smoking the
really good drugs.)
> I don't actually know a reason to make swap a partition over a
> swapfile.
Swap files have to go through the filesystem. This means more overhead
than a partition. This overhead should not be noticeable on an ordinary
x86 system from the last 15ish years unless you're doing something
seriously crazy.
> I don't use hibernate so don't really need a swap either.
Suspend-to-disk can use swap files. You just have to follow the
directions in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst .
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