why ubuntu LTS installs all in a single partition?

[Liam Proven]

On 3 August 2013 22:21, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Swap files are a reasonable replacement for swap partitions.  I would
> still agree with Christofer that some nominal amount of swap is wise,
> though, and I always ensure that I have some enabled.  If nothing else,
> you might as well be using that RAM for more buffer cache rather than
> for the working set of some rarely-scheduled process.

With multiple gigabytes of RAM being standard equipment now, I really
don't think it makes any difference either way.

After my experimentation with `swapspace` and `zram` a few months ago,
documented here:

http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/34124.html

&

http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/34500.html

... and discussed here too, I have come to the conclusion that if
hibernation is not required, there's no need for dedicated swap on
modern-spec desktop machines or servers.

I am aware that this is contentious in the Linux world, but OTOH, it's
been standard practice for Windows NT since 1993 and Mac OS X since
2001. It seems to work for them.

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