On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 00:54, Christoph Anton Mitterer
<cales...@scientia.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-03-29 at 00:49 +0000, David wrote:

> > In that situation, field 4 has to be non-blank, which is when setting
> > it to "defaults" becomes useful.
> >
> > Otherwise, putting "defaults" in field 4 achieves nothing, because
> > defaults are defaults so there is no reason to specify them.
>
> Does that imply you'd simply skip fields 4 to 6 for swap entries?

Yes, for many years using Debian stable, my swap lines in
/etc/fstab look like this:
<device>  none  swap

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