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 partitions on a disk may get wonky. The minor device# expansion should've made this possible, but you never know. (Counterpoint: My phone has over 20 partitions on it, probably because someone at Samsung was smoking the really good drugs.)
I don't actually know a reason to make swap a partition over a swapfile.
Swap files have to go through the filesystem. This means more overhead than a partition. This overhead should not be noticeable on an ordinary x86 system from the last 15ish years unless you're doing something seriously crazy.
I don't use hibernate so don't really need a swap either.
Suspend-to-disk can use swap files. You just have to follow the directions in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst .
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