Stop making swap partitions–use swap files instead

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.