Changes coming to Clear Linux' direction in 2020

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nvmd, [caveat: I have not gotten the CL installer to work yet.] Can you explain this? Does CL not use the classic linux utilities swapon and swapoff to control swap use? see

man swapoff
swapon, swapoff - enable/disable devices and files for paging and swapping

In case you want to remove the swap partition, is it not listed in /etc/fstab?
man fstab
fstab - static information about the filesystems

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CL does not use fstab to load mount system mount points initially. It uses systemd. You can still mount an drive with fstab however system doesnā€™t depend on its existance and doesnā€™t use it to mount swap.

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permanently disable swap

function disable_swap() {
	swapcount=$(sudo grep '^/dev/\([0-9a-z]*\).*' /proc/swaps | wc -l)

	if [ "$swapcount" != "0" ]; then
		sudo systemctl mask "$(sed -n -e 's#^/dev/\([0-9a-z]*\).*#dev-\1.swap#p' /proc/swaps)" 2>/dev/null
	else
		echo "Swap not enabled"
	fi
}
disable_swap

source:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/clearlinux/cloud-native-setup/master/clr-k8s-examples/setup_system.sh

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So how does CL mount swap?
How can it be configured?
Are there arbitrary limits?
Where is it documented?

Maybe these answers would be a good conclusion to the post How to disable swap? - #31 by Dmitry which has good ideas but itā€™s not clear which is the best way to do it persistently.

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The default swap file size:

Default swap file name:

It used ā€œmkswapā€ to create the swap file:

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@inmanturbo and @doct0rHu: thank you for your answers. Pointing to the source code is very helpful.

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So the installer wonā€™t ask me for the CLR_SWAP partition any more? If so, if I already have the partition, can I just disable the swap and delete the partition and reclaim the space?

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By default it uses a swap file, but you can provide a CLR_SWAP partition in advanced partitioning scheme.

You can nevertheless create your swap file and disable the swap partition.

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Yes you can disable swap and reclaim the space.

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Thatā€™s working perfectly for me too.
Iā€™ve never had a safer environment.

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Just seen this news. Iā€™ve been using Clear Linux for some weeks now and wanted to make this as my main OS (currently using debian) because of the speed and optimization. I thought, I found the desktop OS I was looking for many years! Really started loving this.

This is sad. I hope you keep the GNOME, KDE and related applications and continue to provide a desktop image. Let the users and community build the rest.

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Itā€™s a right direction. Clear Linux desktop is a failure. I prefer to install server version and then install led.

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Or you can have the option of using the F2Fs or BTRFS option when are installing CL.

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Itā€™s a right direction. Clear Linux desktop is a failure.

I disagree. Clear Linux desktop theme was great.

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I feel It makes the fantastic system slow and lagged.
I prefer to install server version only. If needed, install kde later on.

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I feel It makes the fantastic system slow and lagged.

Very interesting. Have you done any tests to check this? How big is performance drop?

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I disagree too.
Itā€™s awesome.
Never had a better system.
It needs to be polished here and there but the performance Iā€™m getting out of n4000 is incredible.
I have a quectel evb I use to connect with it and I ditched my smartphone altogether. I can send/receive calls, surf the web and even use the gps on my laptop, which also has 12hours running time.
Customized as I please, Iā€™ll never go back nor change it with any other operating system out there.
I also have a resin-based 3D printer I managed to run with it without any problem whatsoever.
The only windows-based software I use on it is an old copy of Cinema4D, which I canā€™t live without, and, luckily, itā€™s perfect with wine.
Runs virtualbox like a pro, and basically does whatever I throw at it.
Itā€™s definitely not for the faint of heart but Iā€™m having the best experience of my life on it.
Iā€™d say that itā€™s a power-usersā€™ desktop though as you canā€™t expect what the average user might expect, but thatā€™s exactly what I love about it.
Iā€™d say they should keep it as it is.
I just need to run it over coreboot, which I didnā€™t port on my system yet, but then, Iā€™m done for good.
Congratulation to Intel Devs. I canā€™t stress out too much how good this is.
Iā€™d give you money to express my gratitude, and thatā€™s probably what Iā€™ll do by sticking to Intel-made hardware for my next purchases.
Heavily suggested among peers and friends.
Keep it up!

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@peteonrails agree with some of what you said. On the other hand it, would be nice to represent @ahkok fairly. He said ā€œitā€™s not worth our (the CL devs) timeā€. He did not tell someone they were not worth his time. I agree that would be a bit rude, yet he never said that. Subtle but very meaningful difference. Lets assume good faith

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@cmilne Iā€™ve long since moved on from this thread ā€“ and after contributing the tutorial for how to get ZFS working, from trying to use this distribution on the desktop ā€“ but suffice it to say, I do try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. While I donā€™t speak for him, Iā€™m fairly certain that @ahkok considers the hatchet buried. As do I.

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