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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.

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vinney...axkl 9mo ago

It's simple: they hate us.

computers, I mean.

and we hate them. this is war, Guy

vinney...axkl 9mo ago

also sorry, that sounds like hell.

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 9mo ago

hfsp

Guy Swann 9mo ago

THANSK FOR NOT HELPING UTXO

nout 9mo ago

Yep, swap is generally useless to put on another partition.

All recent installs allowed me to have swap on the main partition. Are you sure there were not some advanced settings that you missed? Like you just need to select path under the same partition...

Yep, dual booting is surprisingly hard to set up...

Guy Swann 9mo ago

I was using basic default settings, but I specifically had to go to advanced to make all other drives visible since they didn’t have pen partitions. Which also makes zero sense to me, because it was a USED swap partition. For what possible reason would the computer select to overwrite a used swap partition instead of creating its own in a fully unused drive with no partition at all?

nout 9mo ago

Agreed it's weird and useless. Swap should just be a file on your main partition. No reason to have separate partition. Im surprised zorin installer didn't let you do it.

There is some reasonable argument to have boot on its own partition, but not swap.

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.

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.

Cpt. Charisma 9mo ago

Sounds like a UI issue in the setup. It is better to have swap on a different drive, but you should always give users the option. The best answer, though, is buy more RAM.

Rizful.com 9mo ago

ZFS is always the solution. Often it’s the problem too, however.