I did a manual drive partition setup. The first big question was what all the options did with the new installer.
I set up an ext4 /boot partition, and a fat32 /boot/efi partition - no idea if that is needed.
then set up encrypted btrfs partitions for / and /home
Seemed to go ok. Definitely better than the old installer that would crash if trying to create more than one encrypted partition. I would still like to test if 4 or more encrypted partitions can be made during install, but that is another day.
When booting in and doing the recommended 7 steps for improving nvme life, then rebooting, upon looking at fstab there was an entry for swap under the / encrypted partition.
Looking at the /@swap folder and file, the file was only 512MB and was the only file in the swap folder in the / directory.
Can the fstab entry for the swap "partition"/file just be removed? At 512MB is this really doing anything? or is it a self growing file as needed?
My system has 32gb of ram, which seems enough to hold all the memory use for the few things I do.
Is the proper way to not use the swap file to just delete the entry in fstab? Any tips for not borking the system?
thanks
I set up an ext4 /boot partition, and a fat32 /boot/efi partition - no idea if that is needed.
then set up encrypted btrfs partitions for / and /home
Seemed to go ok. Definitely better than the old installer that would crash if trying to create more than one encrypted partition. I would still like to test if 4 or more encrypted partitions can be made during install, but that is another day.
When booting in and doing the recommended 7 steps for improving nvme life, then rebooting, upon looking at fstab there was an entry for swap under the / encrypted partition.
Looking at the /@swap folder and file, the file was only 512MB and was the only file in the swap folder in the / directory.
Can the fstab entry for the swap "partition"/file just be removed? At 512MB is this really doing anything? or is it a self growing file as needed?
My system has 32gb of ram, which seems enough to hold all the memory use for the few things I do.
Is the proper way to not use the swap file to just delete the entry in fstab? Any tips for not borking the system?
thanks
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