Stop making swap partitions–use swap files instead

3 comments

• gucci-on-fleek 24 minutes ago

  Probably not a great idea if you're using btrfs [0].

  [0]: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Swapfile.html#:~:text...

• eqvinox 2 hours ago

  Anything that does

    create file
    chmod 0600 file
  

  should be

    umask 077
    create file

• avadodin 6 hours ago

  Thank you for your opinion, Bill.

  Just kidding, I agree with the sentiment. It's 2026 not 1976. You don't need separate physical partitions for most use cases.