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charcircuit 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead

Linux distros that do use swap files do so statically. It doesn't handle dynamically growing and shrinking it like other operating systems.

0xbadcafebee 14 days ago | [–]

Unless you use the Linux package that does manage swap files dynamically.

kaelwd 14 days ago | | [–]

https://github.com/Tookmund/Swapspace

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