Ubuntu 17.04 Moves from Swap Disk to Swap File
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Taking a page from the Windows book, Ubuntu has decided to move away from its traditional dedicated partition for swap space and instead move to a swap file. There are actually some pretty solid reasons for the move.
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well, it's not a bad idea, nowadays computers have huge amounts of ram so swap is rarely used, and what is the benefit of a swap partition unless you have it in a separate drive?
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@xisco said in Ubuntu 17.04 Moves from Swap Disk to Swap File:
well, it's not a bad idea, nowadays computers have huge amounts of ram so swap is rarely used, and what is the benefit of a swap partition unless you have it in a separate drive?
Good point. And it makes swap more flexible. Need more, just grow it. Need less, shrink it. You can easily decide later and change quickly without interruption.
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it makes even more sense in virtualized environments. One can easily add more RAM or disk space if required on VM. No need to dedicate partition for it.
