I have a 256GB solid state drive on which I plan on installing Xen and a few VMs. For the host (dom0), I want to use Ubuntu Server 16.04 and have it take up as little space as reasonably possible. During setup, I select "Guided - Use entire disk and setup LVM" and set the size of the partition to be 20.0 GB. When installation was finished, df showed 2.5GB allocated with 1.3GB free. swapoff showed a 16GB swapfile. This is my dom0, so it's not going to be doing much. And it's going to be limited to about 512M to 1G RAM so that much swap is not needed.
Here is the output of df -h after I ran it again with 50.0 GB. You can see there's only 30G on /
@garden:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 8.9M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/garden--vg-root 30G 1.7G 27G 6% /
tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 472M 101M 347M 23% /boot
tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /run/user/1000
And here's the output of swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/dm-1 partition 16732156 0 -1
At the end of the day, space is cheap so I can get by with a bloated, unused swapfile. But my question is, is there a way to install Ubuntu Server without a swap file? Or with a smaller swap file?
