Swapping to a large sparse file

[John Mellor]

You do not need to mess it up, unless you are actually using all 2TB of the
disk.  Use gparted to shrink the existing partitions as required.

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:11 PM, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 01/17/2015 06:02 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uswsusp
>>
>> It looks like it support swapfiles. I still don't think a sparse file
>> backing a loop device as a swap device will work for suspend to disk,
>> but it may just be a matter of creativity. If this is a laptop I think
>> you're better off with swap on the internal drive and just make up the
>> space you've lost some other way. If you ever have to grab it and go
>> you don't want an object attached that can get caught on something and
>> snapped off. If the laptop has an optical drive, remove it and put in
>> a hard drive to supplement the SSD.
>>
> The nand flash sinks completely into the multi-flash
> reader/writer, nothing to protrude. So I think this
> is a good solution for my situation. I really do not
> want to back up 2TB drive, repartition it to create
> a 16GB swap partition and restore the rest.
> Too gosh darned time consuming.
>
>
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