Stop making swap partitions–use swap files instead

jenders 13 points 3 comments June 18, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)

avadodin

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.

eqvinox

Anything that does create file chmod 0600 file should be umask 077 create file

gucci-on-fleek

Probably not a great idea if you're using btrfs [0]. [0]: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Swapfile.html#:~:text...

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