Timeline for How do I set up an encrypted swap file in Linux?
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| Jul 21, 2020 at 17:45 | comment | added | Kuberchaun | This makes sense thanks for sharing. I kept asking myself "if you have your entire disk already encrypted why would you need to encrypt swapfile that is living on the disk/partition?" | |
| May 16, 2018 at 13:56 | comment | added | Mio Rin | Is your home directory unlocked on system boot or when you log in? If it only unlocks when you log in, then you can't have the swapfile in there. Swap must be unlocked and made available on system boot. Besides that, you don't want system stuff in your user home directory. That's reserved for user stuff. | |
| May 13, 2018 at 18:58 | comment | added | fifaltra | I tried creating a swapfile like this in my encrypted home directory like that, and it crashed just like the encrypted swap file did... | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 7:09 | history | answered | Mio Rin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |