Hi All, Brought a new laptop and decided to jump to Arch and EndevourOS over from Regolith/Ubuntu. During the install decided on i3 and BTRFS. I also enabled the swap file on the installer. However on lid close and then open the screen would just display a frozen desktop screen from the moment I …

On btrfs, swap files need to be a on a subvolume with no snapshots and CoW should be disabled. Did you create a separate subvolume to hold the swapfile? Full instructions are here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/btrfs#Swap_file Also, welcome to the forum!

Can't create swap file: swapon failed: Invalid argument

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dalto May 26, 2022, 10:59pm 7

You can skip that step.

A recent change to btrfs makes it no longer needed/possible.

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