nixos/swap: support for resizing swapfile

Currently NixOS creates the swapfile (with the specified size) only if
it doesn't already exist. Changing the swapfile size afterwards will not
have any effect.

This commit changes that so the swapfile will be recreated whenever
swapDevices.*.size is changed (or more precisely, whenever the actual
file size differs from the configured one), allowing both growing and
shrinking the swapfile.

The service unit has "restartIfChanged = false", so we don't have to
worry about the swapfile being in use at the time this code is run (you
have to reboot for swapfile changes).

fallocate doesn't shrink files, use truncate for that. truncate can also
be used to grow files, but it creates "holes" in the file which doesn't
work with swapfiles.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/modules/config/swap.nix b/nixos/modules/config/swap.nix
index f0353c5a35ec..62b6e011713e 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/config/swap.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/config/swap.nix
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ let
         description = ''
           If this option is set, ‘device’ is interpreted as the
           path of a swapfile that will be created automatically
-          with the indicated size (in megabytes) if it doesn't
-          exist.
+          with the indicated size (in megabytes).
         '';
       };
 
@@ -132,9 +131,13 @@ in
             script =
               ''
                 ${optionalString (sw.size != null) ''
-                  if [ ! -e "${sw.device}" ]; then
+                  currentSize=$(( $(stat -c "%s" "${sw.device}" 2>/dev/null || echo 0) / 1024 / 1024 ))
+                  if [ "${toString sw.size}" != "$currentSize" ]; then
                     fallocate -l ${toString sw.size}M "${sw.device}" ||
                       dd if=/dev/zero of="${sw.device}" bs=1M count=${toString sw.size}
+                    if [ "${toString sw.size}" -lt "$currentSize" ]; then
+                      truncate --size "${toString sw.size}M" "${sw.device}"
+                    fi
                     chmod 0600 ${sw.device}
                     ${optionalString (!sw.randomEncryption) "mkswap ${sw.realDevice}"}
                   fi