Swap partition or Swap File

[ssfc72]

https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190121#qa

A good article about the advantages and disadvantages of both. 

[fox]

Yep; read it last night. In my case, I tried adding a swap partition to Ubuntu on my laptop to see if this would result in "proper" (i.e. very low energy use) hibernation. Unfortunately it didn't. Ubuntu by default presently uses a swap file rather than a swap partition.

[ssfc72]

I didn't know anything about this swap file business. I wonder what Mint 19 uses?

[fox]

I think that a Mint default installation would use a swap partition rather than a swap file. Looking at my Mint cinnamon installation on my iMac, I have a swap partition and I don't recall doing anything special to create it. Ubuntu used to create swap partitions by default; this changed to a swap file with 18.04 LTS.

[Jason]

Yep; read it last night. In my case, I tried adding a swap partition to Ubuntu on my laptop to see if this would result in "proper" (i.e. very low energy use) hibernation. Unfortunately it didn't. Ubuntu by default presently uses a swap file rather than a swap partition.

Did you create it equal to or larger than the amount of RAM you have? You'd need that for hibernation.

[fox]

Did you create it equal to or larger than the amount of RAM you have? You'd need that for hibernation.

Yes, I did, for the reason you suggested.