On Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:57:26 +0100 Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2022, 18:45:22 CET schrieb Tixy: > However, I believe, hibernating will use the swap partition, so I > think, it might be a good idea, to create a swap partition twice as > big as the memory, if you want to use it. > > Of course you can use any other partition for hibernating, but for > myself I used an encrypted swap partition for hibernation in earlier > times. > > A bigger swap partition will not harm your system, as modern > harddrives are much, much bigger than memory (normally!), most > systems are using 16GB or 32GB, not many 64GB (and some 128GB and > more) as RAM, but compared to 1TB , 16GB or even 32GB is rather > small. > > Maybe some people like me (I personally am using old stuff with > debian) are just using 250GB harddrives, but we are only some > dinosaurs to be left. > > Normally are 500GB ore higher capacities, so a swap drive does not > harm. > > Just my opinion.... > > Best > > Hans +1 > > > On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 18:19 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > > On 1/8/22 19:38, Tixy wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2022-01-08 at 19:18 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > > > [1] If I remember correct, you couldn't actually disable swap, > > > > just set it's size to the minimum of 4MB. > > > > > > it's possible not to use swap. Debian installer (in expert mode) > > > shows a warning if the user doesn't create swap partition. > > > > Thanks, that's what I do. (My comment about 4MB minimum was with > > regard to Windows 2000 ;-) > > > > -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *********************************************** Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ...Henry David Thoreau *********************************************** Debian GNU/Linux - Magic indeed. -----------------------------------------------------