Fedora Workstation now defaults to using zram to make an in-memory compressed swap device rather than using disk. I have a use-case where I’d really like on-disk swap. Since the partitioning is already set, I can’t easily just add a swap partition. What is the recommended approach?

My top recommendation if you need disk-based swap is to create a swap partition. In particular for the hibernation use case. However, if you’re committed to swapfiles on Btrfs, see man 5 btrfs and make sure you can live with the limitations. And then continue: Fedora doesn’t have an official locat…

If I want to add a swapfile on Fedora Workstation with btrfs, where should I put it?

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sampsonf (Sampson Fung) January 23, 2021, 10:49pm 2

It seems the best is to create a dedicated btrfs subvolume to hold the swap file only.

This arrangement provide a chance to make suspend to disk work.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/btrfs#Swap_file

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If I want to add a swapfile on Fedora Workstation with btrfs, where should I put it?

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