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Au this is old MX 21.1 bullseye

Ok thank you

/swapfile is a de facto standard for the location of the swapfile. Tools like Timeshift know about it and ignore it on backups. If you put it somewhere else or rename it you lose that advantage and you have to exclude it manually.

I don't really get what you mean by swap folder. There shouldn't ...

Now everything is fine, they say that it is 4 gigabytes swap folder means that this method is much better than swapfile???

The Installer now supports swapfiles as well as swap partitions. The “regular” auto installation will default to swapfiles.

May i ask why swap-files instead of swap-partitions? Or is it written down or explained already somewhere. if it is, sorry for my asking.


I also wanted to ask why the ...