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Now that you've had a few weeks to read the must-read Arch documentation, I'm sure you noticed the part where it said:
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Single root partition
This scheme is the simplest and should be enough for most use cases. A swapfile can be created and easily resized as needed. It usually makes sense to start by considering a single / partition
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Originally Posted by CarpCharacin
I did read it. Do just plain stock installs of popular distros such as ubuntu have swap partitions?
I'm not sure what bearing that has on anything? Last time I installed Ubuntu it installed Unity but last time I checked many Linux systems were running fine without it.
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Originally Posted by CarpCharacin
I just don't want my computer to have an ultimate failure.
Having a swap partition will not protect your computer form "an ultimate failure". swap is a way of using hard drive space as RAM because RAM costs more than storage, end of. There's nothing magical going on here.
I just don't want my computer to have an ultimate failure.
All hardware will fail eventually.
The question is not "how do I prevent my computer from ever failing?" but rather "how do I mitigate the damage when hardware failure inevitably occurs?"
Buy a reputable brand of computer with a good warranty.
Back up your data.
That being said, what evidence do you have that a swap partition (or a swap file, or no swap at all) causes "ultimate failure"?
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CarpCharacin: Here are my suggestions:
- One single root (/) partition
- Do not hibernate - what is the advantage to this ? If you want to stop using the computer for any length of time, just shut down. Arch being a rolling release, you're going to be rebooting frequently enough anyway, what with all the kernel updates ...
- No swap partition
- If after sufficient experience, you feel the need for swapping (incredibly unlikely with 64 Gb of RAM), create a swap file or repartition if for some reason you must.
Ok, I am not using a swap partition. I had trouble installing arch, so I downloaded that arch anywhere iso, the one with the installer and I am installing it now. It is working good.
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