bionic more swap

[der.hans]

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 at 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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