Hi, Another cas where I use partitions is to avoid FS saturation on the root or important FS. Like if a log goes crazy, we can only freeze the /var fs, and then you can still manage the system. If the / is full, it's harder to debug (seen cases where even login was impossible with 0 byte free...), and sure that system crash and potential data lost.
But sure that i work more on servers than personnal laptop :) Interesting topic, even if i didn't have SSD for servers on recent install. David Le dim. 28 oct. 2018 à 15:18, Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> a écrit : > Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenst...@yahoo.com> writes: > > > BTW, swap should be completely _unused_ during normal computer operation > > if you don't want a snail slow machine. > > Consider to install a swap file instead of a swap partition for the rare > > cases where you run out of physical memory. > > > > The only situation you really want a _large_ swap is IMHO when > > developing kernel programs to get access to the whole messy system via a > > crash dump. > > You might want enough swap to support hibernation. Even if you don't > use it normally, it can be quite useful for the situations where the > battery runs out completely. > > See https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation and > https://wiki.debian.org/SystemdSuspendSedation for more details > > > Bjørn > > -- Salutations, David CHALON
