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Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD



On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 08:08:22AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 08:26:24 -0500
> Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> 
> > Many laptops never need to go to disk-stored suspension; a low-power
> > sleep mode is all they need to get through to the next power point.
> > For the cases where it is necessary, it should be as reliable as
> > possible.
> 
> Perhaps. But one reason to use hibernation (disk-stored suspension) is
> security. If your hard drive, including swap area, is encrypted,
> hibernation encrypts everything, and one would need the passphrase to
> get in to the system. Thus your data is more secure from governments
> and other thieves.
> 

One thing that may be worth thinking about: if you take "guided partitioning"
then for Bullseye, the default size of swap is 1GB - since very few
programs should be hitting swap. If you have a laptop with 8G of memory,
then you may well need at least 8G to hibernate - so it is worth checking
siazes and requirements as you install.

On the laptop next door with 4G of memory but only 32G of flash disk - 
saving for hibernation would be difficult.

All the very best, as ever,

Andy Cater


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