swap file vs swap partition

[Stephen Partington]

My general config is to create a swap partition and set swappiness to 0. so
it is there for hibernate, but given 32G of ram it is never really touched.


On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 1:43 PM Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> The biggest difference is, files can become fragmented while partitions
> don't. On a hard drive this can make a big difference. On an SSD I would
> tend not to use a swap partition or file. If you use a swap partition on an
> SSD it would confine the writes to a smaller area of the disk and wear it
> out faster. So a file would work much better because it has the whole disk
> to even out the writes. But you do a lot of swapping that also puts more
> wear onto the SSD. So I would tend to put my swap on a hard drive.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 8:57 AM Seabass via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> 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)
>> It is encrypted swap when on a fully encrypted drive without needing more
>> partitioning work.
>>
>> I don't actually know a reason to make swap a partition over a swapfile.
>> I imagine there is a partition setting somehow or maybe the inability to
>> resize is desirable, but that hasn't been my use case before.
>>
>> To be fair though... I don't use hibernate so don't really need a swap
>> either. So it is rare I'd need it anyway.
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>> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:22:57 -0700
>> From: Jim <azanorak at gmail.com>
>> To: plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>> Subject: swap file vs swap partition
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>> Regarding swap file vs swap partition: Is one better than the other?
>> When I installed Kubuntu on my machine, both options were available and
>> I chose the swap file.  The OS is installed on an
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