Swapfile filling up root logical volume

[sacred gale]

I have a 16GiB swapfile that is located into my root folder so the path is /swapfile.
Thing is I have 32GB of ram and so I wanted to make a 32GB swapfile but this would fill my lv_root entirely and create errors when all over (as it would with a full root logical volume)
**I was wondering if there was a need for swapfiles to be in the root logical volume? **
Because if not I would've just created the swapfile into my home folder

[vagrant quarry]

There isn't a requirement, but iirc systemd-logind or some other systemd service has some option that protects the home directory by default which means you won't be able to hibernate without editing the service file to disable that protection

[sacred gale]

SO THAT'S WHY MY PC WOULDN'T WAKE UP FROM HIBERNATION OMFGGGG

[vagrant quarry]

perhaps

[sacred gale]

because last time I had a hibernate option in my powermenu my swapfile was in my home folder

[vagrant quarry]

but usually it wouldn't let you hibernate in the first place

[sacred gale]

ah some maybe something else

[vagrant quarry]

if it was protected

but maybe I'm just remembering wrong

It's worth seeing if changing that option fixes it

[sacred gale]

alright

[vagrant quarry]

did you make sure you set the right resume options in the kernel command line

when you added your swapfile to your home dir

[sacred gale]

I have no idea how hibernation works
all I did was try the systemctl hibernate, see that it didn't work, and didn't try further lol

but aside from the hibernate thing

[vagrant quarry]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Hibernation

You need to set up your initramfs and kernel command line

To tell it to resume from hibernate and tell it where the swapfile is to actually resume from

[sacred gale]

what options do I have for the swapfile now? since it will definitely be bigger than my root logical volume?

[sacred gale]

thanks ill look into that

[vagrant quarry]

Put in /home

and just configure logind to disable the ProtectHome option or whatever it's called

[sacred gale]

alright Ill try that later thanks for the help :)

[vagrant quarry]

oh right I found it @sacred gale

You do sudo systemctl edit systemd-logind.service then add```ini
[Service]
ProtectHome=no

To the bottom

Then save and quit the editor

[sacred gale]

amazing I was looking that up thankks x)

[vagrant quarry]

Then after that you can proceed with these steps so that it will be able to actually wake from hibernation