Comments on: Shrink a Linux partition to create Swap space https://www.theo-andreou.org/?p=1180 Just another boring linux blog Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:52:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 By: Theodotos Andreou https://www.theo-andreou.org/?p=1180#comment-923 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 15:23:05 +0000 http://www.theo-andreou.org/?p=1180#comment-923 In reply to rozie.

That’s true. But Utilite didn’t had swap to file either.

]]> By: rozie https://www.theo-andreou.org/?p=1180#comment-916 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 08:44:16 +0000 http://www.theo-andreou.org/?p=1180#comment-916 Since very long time there’s really no point to create separate partition for swap. You can as well use swap in file, with no file system overhead, as kernel can address it directly.
Well, I’m not sure about using hibernatnion (suspend to disk) with swap in file, but IIRC it works too.

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