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Again, no, on all points. And you find my response "uncivil" but I find yours very much so as well. You won't even entertain my use cases, and my own direct pe

by lproven 12d ago

Again, no, on all points. And you find my response "uncivil" but I find yours very much so as well. You won't even entertain my use cases, and my own direct personal experience, but your bad advice that would have repeatedly lost me all the data in my home directory on my work PC if I used your methods, for you trumps my 38 years of Unix experience. No. You are being dogmatic, inconsiderate, not listening, responding with ridiculous strawman arguments ("keep swap in your home directory" as a response to "duplicate swap files waste space" -- that is ridiculous) and mockery. You are rude, and you are arrogant, and you are wrong.

zahlman 12d ago
> No. You are being dogmatic, inconsiderate, not listening, responding with ridiculous strawman arguments ("keep swap in your home directory" as a response to "duplicate swap files waste space" -- that is ridiculous) and mockery. I am not being any more dogmatic or inconsiderate than you. I have listened to you quite carefully, and explained in good faith why I think you are wrong based on my best effort to understand you. But you have still not, as far as I can understand, identified a benefit of putting swap on a carefully chosen partition that cannot be realized by putting swap on a file at a carefully chosen path (since that choice also implicitly puts it on a specific partition). In particular, you are the one who proposed that using swap files would require duplication, and I explained why I disagree. You claimed vaguely that there would be permission issues; when I expressed confusion, you did not elaborate. You have yet to give any concrete reason why there would be duplicate swap files, therefore the fact that duplication wastes space is moot. My assumption was that you would be sharing /home between the two installations, because there is really nothing preventing you from doing that, and because making two separate /home partitions wastes much more space (because you don't know ahead of time how much space you'll use with each). Unless perhaps you do some bind-mounting trick that I would consider much trickier than setting up a swapfile at a custom path. (/home is owned by root, so there should not be any permission issue with a swapfile at /home/swapfile . If you disagree then you should explain why instead of being vague and dismissive.) Nothing I said could reasonably be considered "mockery" in any way, shape or form. You are the one engaging in "mockery", by describing my proposal as "ridiculous" in italics without giving any reason as to why it wouldn't work.

by lproven 12d ago

zahlman 12d ago

> No. You are being dogmatic, inconsiderate, not listening, responding with ridiculous strawman arguments ("keep swap in your home directory" as a response to "duplicate swap files waste space" -- that is ridiculous) and mockery. I am not being any more dogmatic or inconsiderate than you. I have listened to you quite carefully, and explained in good faith why I think you are wrong based on my best effort to understand you. But you have still not, as far as I can understand, identified a benefit of putting swap on a carefully chosen partition that cannot be realized by putting swap on a file at a carefully chosen path (since that choice also implicitly puts it on a specific partition). In particular, you are the one who proposed that using swap files would require duplication, and I explained why I disagree. You claimed vaguely that there would be permission issues; when I expressed confusion, you did not elaborate. You have yet to give any concrete reason why there would be duplicate swap files, therefore the fact that duplication wastes space is moot. My assumption was that you would be sharing /home between the two installations, because there is really nothing preventing you from doing that, and because making two separate /home partitions wastes much more space (because you don't know ahead of time how much space you'll use with each). Unless perhaps you do some bind-mounting trick that I would consider much trickier than setting up a swapfile at a custom path. (/home is owned by root, so there should not be any permission issue with a swapfile at /home/swapfile . If you disagree then you should explain why instead of being vague and dismissive.) Nothing I said could reasonably be considered "mockery" in any way, shape or form. You are the one engaging in "mockery", by describing my proposal as "ridiculous" in italics without giving any reason as to why it wouldn't work.