My set-up is roughly analogous to this: https://community.frame.work/t/guide-fedora-36-hibernation-with-enabled-secure-boot-and-full-disk-encryption-fde-decrypting-over-tpm2/25474
Summary is that I use full-disk encryption (FDE) and use the TPM to decrypt the swap, and use full lockdown mode with a kernel patched to allow hibernation.
Suspend-then-hibernate (in my opinion) is a must-have feature for a laptop that goes in a backpack – if I close my laptop’s lid and put it in my backpack, I expect it to both not overheat, and to have some amount of battery left regardless of when I decide to take it out again.
Anyway, does anyone have it working well, or any other tips?
One thing I’ve been toying with is using a systemd script to drop the filesystem caches before hibernating to have it resume faster.
Suspend-then-hibernate
That’s something over which I used to be very jealous of Windows laptops 😕 But that was years ago…now my aging 3.2kg ThinkPad is just a “stationery” workstation!
I am not sure if we are discussing hibernation for encrypted systems only, and I do not know what special provisions are needed for that, but for anyone curious, here is what I do on my own machine (not encrypted) per my own notes for setting up Arch, with a swap file rather than a swap partition, and rEFInd as the boot manager (the same kernel params could probably be used in Grub too, though):
- create a file at
sudo nano /etc/tmpfiles.d/hibernation_image_size.conf(copy paste the template from https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate) - if you made your swap file large enough (~1.2x ram size or greater), set the argument value to your amount of ram, e.g. 32GB= 34359738368
- after a reboot, you can verify this with
cat /sys/power/image_size findmnt -no UUID -T /swapfileto get swapfile UUIDfilefrag -v /swapfile | awk '$1=="0:" {print substr($4, 1, length($4)-2)}'to get offset- Go into your kernel parameters and add resume=UUID=### resume_offset=###
- e.g. in /boot/refind_linux.conf (with efi partition unmounted)
- go into /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and add “resume” after the “filesystem” and before the “fsck” hooks
- run
mkinitcpio -p linux-zen(or equivalent linux type)—
- create a file at
I set it up, but it took significantly longer to wake up than Windows so it was not worth it. I now shut down and boot back up since it’s faster
My issue is that, its working. But at times when I need it, it somehow manages to hang during shutdown
I am currently back to running EndeavourOS after PopOS had severe issue running.
Hibernate/sleep out of the box seems to function just fine on my desktop. I’m running a Ryzen 3600, Nvidia RTX 2060, 32GB ddr4 21xx.
It is setup to lock itself after about ten minutes. Then if no activity for an hour will go into sleep/hibernate. Mouse will not wake it but keyboard works fine and I’m back to login within 10s or so.
My Thinkpad x1 (6th gen) running Debian 12 does a really good job out of the box. It’s a little slow to wake up but still probably under 3 seconds.
