On Sun, 2024-12-08 at 19:57 -0600, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > Hi, > > I have not installed Fedora on a laptop for a while, and I am pretty confused > with how to partition the disk: I do custom partition because I want a very > big /home, and a reasonable / > > In the old past, several iterations ago, I used to create a separate swap > partition (twice the size of RAM, though for very large RAM, I have been > using 1x or 1.5x) and use that for hibernate. But now with zram0, do we no > longer need a swap partition? If so, how is hibernate supposed to work? There > is a lot of discussion online: it appears that things changed around F38 and > even later, and also I do not seem to be able to land an official fedora > document regarding what to do. Is this something that is supposed to simply > work? > > Btw, in case it matters, I continue to use ext4 filesystems (except for the > EFI partition). > > Sorry I am not very clear on this. Any suggestions on how to do this?
You don't need a swap partition (or swap file) for suspend, but you certainly do need it for hibernation. With no swap on secondary storage, there's nowhere to keep the saved image once power has been turned off, since Zram is a compressed swap partition in RAM. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
