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What happens on a modern Linux if you hibernate with less swap than RAM?

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On a modern Linux system, what happens if you attempt to hibernate when your swap is smaller than your RAM? For example, say RAM is 16 GB and swap is 8 GB.

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What limits the swap? (3 comments)
What limits the swap?

What limits the swap, remaining disk capacity, remaining disk capacity after purging temporary data, hardcoded limit, or software-controlled limit while the disk has more than enough remaining capacity?

matthewsnyder‭ wrote 6 months ago

It's a partition.

Ah, yeah, that renders my question rather pointless.