Re: hibernate area

2024-09-11 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 08:43 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 10 Sep 2024 20:34 -0400, from e...@gmx.us: > > I'm worried about shortening the life of the NVME drive > > with all those short writes. > > I would call that cargo cult by now. You presumably bought it to use > it, so use it. Absolut

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 10 Sep 2024 20:34 -0400, from e...@gmx.us: > I'm worried about shortening the life of the NVME drive > with all those short writes. I would call that cargo cult by now. You presumably bought it to use it, so use it. As already pointed out, typical write endurance for modern SSDs is measured in

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 11 Sep 2024 00:40 -0400, from e...@gmx.us: >> You may also need to rebuild your `/boot/initrd.img` file since it >> usually contains a copy of that information. > > What is the command for that, "mkinitcpio"? I believe that would be: sudo update-initramfs -u -k all "-u" for update, "-k all" f

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-11 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.09.2024 10:53, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 9/11/24 01:04, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: In mean time, I enjoy fast performance of SSD drives and keep an eye on them using "smartd". Does smartd warn you about impending death? In a way, yes. SSDs and especially NVMe drives are vulnerable to ov

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread eben
On 9/11/24 01:04, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 11.09.2024 05:34, e...@gmx.us wrote: It probably would.  I'm worried about shortening the life of the NVME drive with all those short writes.  Do SSDs fail by going read-only, or do they just vanish and take your data with them? ... In mean

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.09.2024 05:34, e...@gmx.us wrote: It probably would.  I'm worried about shortening the life of the NVME drive with all those short writes.  Do SSDs fail by going read-only, or do they just vanish and take your data with them? Yes, usually they do just vanish and take your data with them,

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread eben
On 9/10/24 14:53, Stefan Monnier wrote: I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on the spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. Is that possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on another? Of course. Just tell your hibernation about

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 08:34:46PM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 9/10/24 13:40, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:24:00 -0400 > > Eben King wrote: > > > > > I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap > > > on the spinning drive, but I'd like to put the h

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread eben
On 9/10/24 13:40, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:24:00 -0400 Eben King wrote: I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on the spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. Is that possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on a

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 Sep 2024 at 19:14:54 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 02:53:01PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on > > > the > > > spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. I

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 02:53:01PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on the > > spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. Is that > > possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on another? > > Of

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on the > spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. Is that > possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on another? Of course. Just tell your hibernation about the partition you want to use for it

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 09:24:00AM -0400, Eben King wrote: > I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on the > spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. Is that > possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on another? Kind of. You can

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:24:00 -0400 Eben King wrote: > I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap > on the spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the > NVME. Is that possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on another? From what I understand, hibe