On: Swap on HDD: Does placement matter?

[iforgotpassword]

True, maybe not back in the day, but ~10 years ago I still used hdds in some machines and resizing was definitely possible and reliable.

[Isthatablackgsd → iforgotpassword]

Me too. I remember using Gparted back in Ubuntu Ibex day (looking at the year, 2008ish). Usually OS come with gparted package or it is available via package manager back then.

[bradknowles → iforgotpassword]

Some OSes could do that, yes. Rare.