Question about hibernate vs. suspend
by magicm from LinuxQuestions.org on (#56G1B)
1st, I'm running stable 14.2 (fully patched)
2nd, I mostly suspect that my own speculation (presented later) is correct.
My preferred DE is xfce, and I have my system configured so that suspend works well. (I run a Thinkpad T420s - and either from menu, or just shutting the lid, it suspends; it wakes up fine by opening the lid, or (when docked), pushing the power button).
Anyway, hibernate does not seem available (or to work when attempted, either) to me, and my suspicion is that it is primarily because I run a fairly small swap partition compared to my system's memory.
Here's some data concerning my hardware:
Code:free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7856 1817 4153 131 1885 5465
Swap: 7 0 7
inxi -P
Partition: ID-1: / size: 916.76 GiB used: 190.33 GiB (20.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2Anyway, Im thinking that if I repartitioned so that I had a 9G swap, instead of 8M, that hibernate would work, too.
I'm not thinking of making this experiment anytime soon, but given the amount of change between 14.2 and current, I'm thinking of a re-install rather than an upgrade when we next get a new release (I'm also thinking about moving to LVM, LUKS, and encrypting when that occurs but have not really committed to that experiment yet).
Thoughts?
2nd, I mostly suspect that my own speculation (presented later) is correct.
My preferred DE is xfce, and I have my system configured so that suspend works well. (I run a Thinkpad T420s - and either from menu, or just shutting the lid, it suspends; it wakes up fine by opening the lid, or (when docked), pushing the power button).
Anyway, hibernate does not seem available (or to work when attempted, either) to me, and my suspicion is that it is primarily because I run a fairly small swap partition compared to my system's memory.
Here's some data concerning my hardware:
Code:free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7856 1817 4153 131 1885 5465
Swap: 7 0 7
inxi -P
Partition: ID-1: / size: 916.76 GiB used: 190.33 GiB (20.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2Anyway, Im thinking that if I repartitioned so that I had a 9G swap, instead of 8M, that hibernate would work, too.
I'm not thinking of making this experiment anytime soon, but given the amount of change between 14.2 and current, I'm thinking of a re-install rather than an upgrade when we next get a new release (I'm also thinking about moving to LVM, LUKS, and encrypting when that occurs but have not really committed to that experiment yet).
Thoughts?