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Comment by walrus01

this is unlikely to hurt you unless you use a swap file, rather than a dedicated swap partition.

for performance reasons most any modern linux installation would be using a dedicated swap partition, that is defined as swap-only during the install process with mkswap

In my experience some of the reasons for using a swap file were more common maybe 10 or 15 years ago. Nowadays with disk space being less costly and rare, and systems having a lot more RAM (so the likelihood of going deep into swap is less), it's unsurprising that none of the testers encountered it.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/mkswap.8.html

parent walrus01 5 years ago

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