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Can I hibernate Linux without a swap partition?
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I hadn't set up a swap partition on my PC, because a) I have plenty of RAM (8 GB) and b) I have large harddrives that I didn't want to chop into tiny pieces, so my smallest partitions are 50 GiB, and I'm already using those for the OS's. Now, to hibernate, my Linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) required swap. I ā¦
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Untested idea: why don't you create a wrapper for or whichever utility handles suspend to disk which manages a swap file ( as opposed to a swap partition ) and deletes it on resume? Create the swap file : ( 8GB ) Setup the swap file: Only when you nā¦
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