Hibernate and lack of docs

[Ed Greshko]

On 11/10/14 06:38, Martín Marqués wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was trying to get hibernation working on my F20 laptop with which I work.

I don't use hibernation myself but....
>
> Going through the process, which I thought would be more transparent
> or that it would just be like hitting the hibernation and that's it, I
> found great deficiencies in Fedora (maybe just from the kernel) and
> especially in the docs (or the lack of documentation in this
> particular issue):
>
> 1) I had trouble getting the system to hibernate. There wasn't
> anything clear about the fact that you needed to have a swap bigger
> than the amount of memory you have. Also, it doesn't work if you have
> a file as swap (which was the easiest way to start testing)

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html

Yes, it is true that you may have to look at earlier release documentation as it may not be carried forward if the information hasn't changed.

>
> 2) You need (or at least with my laptop) to add the resume=<swap FS>,
> this I did find information in the docs, but I'm a bit surprised that
> Fedora doesn't give better information about all this during the
> installation process.
>
> 3) When adding the resume= option to the kernel line in grub you can't
> use UUID like FS. That is a bug IMHO.

Let us know the bugzilla # after you file it.
>
> Well that's as much as I remember now.
>
> At least I now have hibernation working correctly on my laptop.

When it comes to documentation deficiencies you're invited to help improve the documentation as this is community driven.

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