The message 1131354828.3072.330.camel@localhost.localdomain from Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com contains these words:
Linux (I presume) just writes to the swap partition ? I wonder how this works if swap is heavily utilised at the point of hibernation and there is not enough free to write the memory contents ?
I believe Windows of the later flavours makes a temporary swap partition if it's needed.