Don't even bother with a SWAP partition. Create an empty file on your / partition so you can grow/shrink it as needed.
did if=/dev/zero of=/SWAP bs=1024m count=4
mkswap /SWAP
swapon /SWAP
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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This is the way! There's a catch with swap files on encrypted disks and hibernation but that's quite a special case. Edit: forgot to mention zswap, the compressed version of swap.