Stop making swap partitions–use swap files instead

12 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by jenders
(gist.github.com)

2 Comments

eqvinox

an hour ago

Anything that does

  create file
  chmod 0600 file
should be

  umask 077
  create file

avadodin

5 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.