Linux

Is Ubuntu 18.04 still using the SSD drive for swap?

In an Ubuntu 18.04 two disk setup (/ on SSD, /home on spinning drive), my Ubuntu 18.04 has still defaulted to use swap space on the SSD although there was a swap partition of the same size on the spinning drive. This was not a new install, but a system upgrade from 16.04 (where I had created a swap partition manually on the spinning drive to spare the SSD). Linux is able to determine whether a drive is spinning or not, but apparently the installation/upgrade script was not very smart.

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