NVMe 256GB SDD on the RPi5 & ramping up the swapfile size (as you do)
I purchased a couple of the great Pimoroni NVMe Base boards , one I bought with the supplied 256Gb SSD (fitted it to the RPi5 8Gb machine), where I promptly broke the connector on the board for plugging it into the RPi5... so I ordered another base unit without the SSD drive - then purchased a cheap FikWot FN501 Pro 256Gb from Amazon and took a gamble. I set that board up on the RPi5 4Gb machine. Just to be clear, it was a faff & was a bit hit & miss. why? Well, I believe I had to install the Bookworm Raspberry Pi OS onto an SD-Card, go through all of that, then make the tweaks to the /boot/firmware/config.txt file, upgrade the RPi5 eeprom to the latest version, etc.. and then run Raspi Imager to flash the SSD drive once it was detected. This would have been simple had the SDCard I used not been a little "unstable" :-) It did work for the 8Gb RPi5 and all was good - after completion, the machine boots from the SSD into the latest UBuntu. awesome, e...