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Bug 1855464

Summary:	how to create and activate swapfiles post-install
Product:	[Retired] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	Chris Murphy <bugzilla>
Component:	docs-requests	Assignee:	Chris Murphy <bugzilla>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Fedora Docs QA <docs-qa>
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Version:	devel	CC:	nobody, pbokoc, sparks, zach
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Description Chris Murphy 2020-07-09 23:12:54 UTC

This feature means by default there will be no swap partition by default
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwapOnZRAM

Some folks might want/need disk based swap.

swapfiles:
pros: easy to setup; no reboot required; supported on btrfs, ext4, xfs; removable
cons: hibernation is sketchy. it should work on ext4, might work on xfs, does not work on btrfs (it can but requires a tool to find an offset, due to the lack of a standard interface across all file systems, for automatically finding the offset)
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20200127192548.GA683123@vader/

partition:
pros: no limitations
cons: takes up space, isn't resizeable; more complicated/risky to create; requires reboot.

Notes:
The installer's custom partitioning will continue to permit the creation of a swap partition and will configure for hibernation.

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2020-07-09 23:19:37 UTC

Badgering requested.

Comment 2 Petr Bokoc 2024-05-31 12:51:15 UTC

Migrated to https://gitlab.com/fedora/docs/fedora-linux-documentation/fedora-linux-sysadmin-guide/-/issues/18.