On 2020-10-28 16:24, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:43:22 -0700
Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss wrote:
The biggest difference is, files can become fragmented while
partitions don't.
I had no idea there was such a thing as a Linux swap file. I guess
that's a recent thing.
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:43:22 -0700
Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> The biggest difference is, files can become fragmented while
> partitions don't.
I had no idea there was such a thing as a Linux swap file. I guess
that's a recent thing. If my partition file becomes fragmented, is
there a
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@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> The biggest difference is, files can
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
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
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
