<div dir="ltr">Because the SD card is really slow (it used to be single-digit MB/s, but nowadays it’s 10-20 MB/s IIRC) and can easily die from too much wear and tear.<div><br></div><div>Hence, swapping on the SD card is usually more harmful than useful.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to use swap, it should be easy to resize the root partition and create a swap partition yourself.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Heiko Ernst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:heiko.ernst.aschershain@t-online.de" target="_blank">heiko.ernst.aschershain@t-online.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi.<br>
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I why have the image <a href="https://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/raspberrypi3/2018-01-08/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://people.debian.org/~sta<wbr>pelberg/raspberrypi3/2018-01-<wbr>08/</a> no swap partition ?<br>
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Greets Heiko<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Best regards,<br>Michael</div>
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