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[Der Geist der Maschine]

As far as suspend to disk (hibernate) is concerned, there are two important points about the hibernation image:

1. 1. It only needs to contain the contents of memory which is in use (A lot of the time, you won't be using all available memory)
   
2. 2. The image is compressed.
   

This means that you actually have a fairly good chance of hibernating with a swap device which is much smaller than the available RAM.

With Swap Partitions vs Swap Files, in most circumstances the performance differences are minimal, while the advantage of a swapfile is it's trivial to adjust the size while the system is running.

Of course, it's your system, so it shouldn't be too difficult for you to repartition the disk to accomodate a large swap partition if that's what you prefer

Over the last days I educated myself on swap-files. A lot of engineering went into making them efficient.

I'm not yet sure what I will do ... shipping the first batch got delayed and so I have now more time to think about what I will do.