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How bad is my partitioning? (lemmy.ml)
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A partitioning layout in YaST2 that looks thoroughly disorganized. Installed are 4 Windows 11 partitions, Mint EFI, Mint boot, Mint root encrypted, OpenSUSE EFI, swap, OpenSUSE boot, OpenSUSE root encrypted, and a data partition.
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[–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You have swap, which is pointless in this day and age, and will just burn a hole in the flash and delay the OOM killer doing its work. Look at ntfsresize to shrink that Windows partition down to the minimum. Then maybe image the partitions and obliterate them from the SSD. Use LVM instead to give yourself future flexibility. 1TB NVMe SSDs are so cheap these days they might as well put them in boxes of cereal.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The common misconception that swap is pointless stems from misunderstanding what it's supposed to do. You shouldn't be triggering the OOM killer frequently anyway. In the much more normal case where you're only using some of your RAM for running applications, the rest is used as a filesystem cache/buffer. Having swap space available gives your OP the option to evict stale application memory from RAM rather than the filesystem cache when that would be the optimal choice to make.

    This page explains it detail: https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html

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