STOP DOING SWAP PARTITIONS
HARD DRIVES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO ACT LIKE RAM
YEARS OF LINUX SYSADMINNING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going beyond CLOSING A FEW TABS
Wanted to avoid the OOM killer anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called ZRAM
"Yes please give me a dedicated 64GB logical volume of SWAP. Please give me unresizable block devices trapped at the end of my disk." - STATEMENTS DREAMED UP BY THE UTTERLY DERANGED
LOOK at what Neckbeards have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the fdisk and GParted Live USBs we built for them. (This is REAL PARTITIONING, done by REAL LINUX USERS):
# mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p3
# echo /dev/nvme0n1p3 none swap sw 0 0 >> /etc/fstab
# swapon -a
"Hello I would like to torture my SSD's FTL because I left three Electron apps open."
They have played us for absolute fools.
