On Friday, 26 April 2024 10:23:28 BST Wojciech Kuzyszyn wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:40:54 +0100
> 
> Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote:
> > [*] Hibernation (aka 'suspend to disk')
> > [*]   Userspace snapshot device
> > (/dev/sdb6)    Default resume partition
> 
> My swap partition is /dev/nvme0n1p2 - this would work I assume, right?

Yes, it is a block device accessed via the PCIe bus.


> > However, if you are using RAM heavily when you try to hibernate, e.g.
> > because you are compiling some large package, have many memory hungry
> > applications open, etc., you may find hibernation fails due to lack
> > of space.  This would be more acute if your RAM is not large enough
> > and swap is used on a regular basis.  With large enough RAM less swap
> > space will be used, since swap would be virtually empty.  Therefore
> > size your swap device accordingly.
> 
> I have oldschool swap - 2x RAM.

OK, with this much space you'd have at least 2x more hibernation storage space 
than you will need.  :-)

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