swap - Jay Ta'ala

swap

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Use a swap file and enable hibernation on Arch Linux - including on a LUKS root partition

Use a swap file and enable hibernation on Arch Linux - including on a LUKS root partition

Problem You may want/need to create and enable a swap file on your machine. Many Linux distribution installers will create an extra partition for swap. However, there are several advantages to simply using a swap file on your root partition (the partition you installed Linux on). Here's

Create and enable swap file on Linux

Create and enable swap file on Linux

Problem You may want/need to create and enable a swap file on your Linux machine (or server). For example, on some AWS EC2 instances you don't get ephemeral (temporary) storage disks that can be used for swap, so you might want to create a swap file on