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Why would a computer *insist*, to the point of not giving me an option, on using a swap partition on a different drive entirely.

And this is AFTER I manually created a swap drive, and selected it as my swap, and the OS still installed it with BOTH the manually created one and the one on the opposite drive as swap… like wtf?

And it has made it so I cannot boot my Pop OS anymore. And I was just trying to dual boot Zorin.

I cannot understand this, and it happened before. I had a swap partition on a drive that had nothing to do with my OS drive. Just a random 250GB in my hot swap stack. Took it out one day having no idea, computer won’t boot.

Now at least I know what’s going on, but same thing happened. Makes no fucking sense.

#asknostr

nix 9mo ago

Not sure about the 'insist' bit, but it generally makes a lot of sense to have your swap partition on a separate drive if possible. In most cases where the swap space is actually used, if it is on a separate drive to the OS you will get better performance.

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nout 9mo ago

Which happens approximately never? The pains that it adds to have swap on another drive are almost never worth it imo.

Ryan 9mo ago

Reject swap, embrace zram.

Unless you want to hibernate.

nix 9mo ago

Ideally never, yes - if you have enough ram. You can make decent savings though with good use of swap if it is only occasionally needed.