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On 09/12/2021 21:27, pat@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> I'm planning small /boot partition, / partition and /data (including |
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> home) partition. |
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I just use one partition. What's the point of having multiple ones if |
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they're all on the same storage device? |
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> But I'm not sure if I should create a swap partition or swap to |
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> file. I'm daily hibernating the system to disk. And what should be |
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> the size od the swap same as RAM or bigger? |
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The "perfect" setup here would be to get a very small SSD (and those |
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tend to be very cheap), like a 64GB one for $20 or thereabout, and use |
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that as your swap. Just a single swap partition that uses all available |
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storage space. |
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I don't like swap being on my main SSD, since SSDs wear out when you |
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write to them. If you're hibernating the system all the time, that |
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results in quite a lot of data being written. Having a cheap small |
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dedicated SSD for that where you don't care much about its longevity |
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sounds like a good idea to me. |
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If you can't do that, then it doesn't matter much whether you use a swap |
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file or partition. On an SSD, both should perform about the same. On an |
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HDD, swap files could run into fragmentation issues if you resize them |
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or create them incorrectly. On an SSD, fragmentation doesn't have much |
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of an impact. A swap file gives you the option to resize it later on |
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without having to do filesystem and partition resizing, so I'd say a |
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swap file sounds better. |
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