hibernate with swap+swapfile?

[Franz Waldmüller]

Hi Karl,

Am 2011-03-28 15:16, schrieb Karl Larsen:
> On 03/28/2011 07:07 AM, Franz Waldmüller wrote:
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>> i am going to upgrade my RAM this week from 4 to 12 GB. Since my swap
>> partition is only 4,5GB in size I will have to increase the swap space
>> because I want to use the hibernate on this machine.
>>
>> I would like to know, if creating a swapfile of around 8GB and adding
>> it to fstab is all I need to do?
>>
>> Will ubuntu use both, the swap partition and the swap file?
>>
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>>
>>
> Hi Franz, I have 6 GB of RAM and a swap partition. Using 'top' I can see
> that my system uses zero GB of my swap. You should see the same.
>
> 73 Karl
>
>

Thank you for your help. When a system hibernates Linux stores the 
content of the RAM in the swap space or in a swap file. If you want to 
hibernate you need some sort of swap regardless if it is used during 
normal operation.

Franz