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...