Toward a swap abstraction layer

Posted May 29, 2023 12:20 UTC (Mon) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: Toward a swap abstraction layer by kleptog
Parent article: Toward a swap abstraction layer

> I think it would be nice to be able to reserve some disk space for "hibernation-but-not-swap", but that's not possible AFAIK.

You can do that by only enabling an additional swap partition just before hibernation and disabling it right after resume.

Toward a swap abstraction layer

Posted May 30, 2023 13:38 UTC (Tue) by gioele (subscriber, #61675) [Link]

> > I think it would be nice to be able to reserve some disk space for "hibernation-but-not-swap", but that's not possible AFAIK.
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> You can do that by only enabling an additional swap partition just before hibernation and disabling it right after resume.

That's more or less the behavior of the `resume=` kernel argument, isn't it?

From https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/kernel-command-line...

> resume=, resumeflags=
>
> Enables resume from hibernation using the specified device and mount options. All fstab(5)-like paths are supported. For details, see systemd-hibernate-resume-generator(8).