Peter via Dng said on 01 Dec 2025 15:13:56 -0700

>From:    Steve Litt <slitt@???>
>Date:    Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:58:28 -0500
>> Let's say your boot drive is a single partition on an NVMe. You 
>> install your OS on that, as THE single partition.   

>
>Swap? Have a swap file or enough memory to omit swap. According to
>at least one authority, a swap part is slightly faster than a swap
>file.

Yes, you're right. And from what I understand, with modern NVMes, you
can probably put your swap partition on the NVMe for faster processing
when RAM gets tight, and it won't take much less time to wear out the
NVMe than the standard life of Western Digital hard drives (my
experience with Seagate is you're lucky to get 3 years out of it).

>
>So the ultra-slim configuration for a BIOS machine is one part,
>possibly with a swap file. For UEFI: protective MBR, FAT formatted
>EFI and a part with /root, /home, etc.

But you have only 32GB of "disk" anyway, so a swap file would be silly:
You just need to watch what you run like a hawk. And I don't understand
how you get an EFI partition anyway, since they're supposed to be
pretty big, IIRC.

SteveT

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