Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)
Jimmy Wu wrote:
>>From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be
> able to hibernate/suspend to disk properly, the swap partition has to
> be big enough to hold all of the RAM inside it, right?
>
> Is it possible to hibernate if my swap partition is smaller than my
> RAM? I have 2 GB of RAM, and when I installed Debian, I figured I
> would hardly ever need that much, so I made swap 1.4 GB.
>
Are you aware that you can resize your partitions non destructively using
something like qtparted? First backup all your data before you do anything
like this. This is what I did when I found out that my RAM size is larger
than my swap partition.
raju
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