Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?
>> I'm not sure that this is correct. I have several SSDs around here, all
>> several years old, all with swap partitions and all in daily use. None
>> has failed me yet.
> Most modern SBC images for Debian and Armbian don't have a swap
> partition. It's not usually necessary and it provides a vector for wear on
> the device.
Images for SBCs are fairly different from typical desktop/laptop
circumstances: there is no real "SSD" in most SBCs. Instead they
typically have a small eMMC (if it all) that might hold the OS but not
much more and then the image itself is often expected to be on
a µSD card.
Putting swap on a µSD is often a bad idea because those cards are often
slow and they wear-endurance is rarely advertised (and apparently often
poor).
Stefan
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