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by gerdesj 3072 days ago
Well done mate - you are the first person to mention this here. It was also only briefly mentioned in the article.

Yes, hibernation does work well and it requires swap. Personally, I set a swap partition equal to RAM + 512MB on systems that I want to hibernate on.

Linux also supports swap files and this might be handy: https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation/Hibernate_Without_Swap_P...