Deleting Swap Partition

[inflatus]

Is having a swap partition an issue with SSD's? I do not hibernate my 
machine so that is not a reason to keep swap. I can backup my data and 
reinstall Ubuntu without the swap but that seems to be a bit of work for 
something may be a non-issue.

On 10/03/2015 02:50 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:35 AM, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 07:55:39 Bradley Harvey <inflatus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am running my 15.04 on a Thinkpad with an SSD installed. I added some
>>> extra RAM and the Swap doesn't seem to be getting hit at all now. Is it
>>> advisable to delete the swap partition?
>> That depends on your circumstances. If you plan on using hibernation you
>> will need swap, for example. Of course, if you delete it and later find
>> out that you need swap after all, you can always add a swap file.
> Hibernation's disabled in Ubuntu:
>
> grep Disable /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/*
> /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla:[Disable
> hibernate by default in upower]
> /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla:[Disable
> hibernate by default in logind]
>