Foe the ones, like me, who didn't know why you recommended that:
By setting umask 077 first and then creating the file, the file gets created with the correct restrictive permissions (0600) in one step instead leaving the file readable for "everyone" for a moment.
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Probably not a great idea if you're using btrfs [0].
[0]: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Swapfile.html#:~:text...
I wonder if it works [reliably] on ZFS…
Anything that does
should beFoe the ones, like me, who didn't know why you recommended that:
By setting umask 077 first and then creating the file, the file gets created with the correct restrictive permissions (0600) in one step instead leaving the file readable for "everyone" for a moment.
just buy more RAM, it's cheap enough...
Where do you live ? Must be some magical place where RAM is cheap !
Thank you for your opinion, Bill.
Just kidding, I agree with the sentiment. It's 2026 not 1976. You don't need separate physical partitions for most use cases.