On Mon, 2023-07-10 at 12:16 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
On Sun, 2023-07-09 at 11:14 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I found this handy guide:
>
>
https://fedoramagazine.org/hibernation-in-fedora-36-workstation/
>
> It does require some fiddling around to work out the swapfile's
> physical offset on the drive, but I'm going to try it.
I had a look at that, yet another way of doing things. Argh!
I wonder if anyone has thought of designing things to have a
dedicated
hibernation file or partition that isn't also used for swap?
I guess that would be an idea, though I'm not sure how much effort it
would save in terms of setting it up.
Having said that, hibernation has only been a bit of a curiosity for
*me*, without any real need. And then there's other things to
consider, like security implications, and how it's somewhat similar
to
how we have a web browser with 200 tabs still open because we don't
bother to close the ones we really don't need to keep open (if
bookmarking was better implemented we might do that far less). You
end
up building a creaking pile of things that's just waiting to fall
over.
I don't personally have more than around a dozen tabs at a time because
I'm fastidious about closing them, but I tend to be a bit OCD about
these things. As regards security, the above link explains how to
encrypt the hibernated state using LUKS.
poc