Do I need a swap *partition* to use hibernation?

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 15:38, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I also followed the instructions regarding how hibernation can be done
> (is at the end of the page above).
>
> So now I have presumably configured the hibernate infrastructure but
> unfortunately there is no visible way in the Mate menus to activate a
> hibernation shutdown...

Ubuntu disables hibernation by default. You need to manually enable it.

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2017/10/enable-hibernate-ubuntu-17-10/

These are the instructions for GNOME but they should work.
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2018/05/add-hibernate-option-ubuntu-18-04/


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