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In addition to everything else, if you're not using hibernate you could reclaim some of the swap partition, 10 GB is completely wasted.
I would delete and merge the swap space into root if they're neighbors. You can create swap files instead of any size you want, and place them anywhere you want, like /home.
I would recommend starting with 1 GB of swap and see how much is actually being used.
To create and use a swap file:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024to create a file.mkswapto format the swap file.swapon /swapfileto activate it./swapfile none swap sw 0 0in/etc/fstabto activate on every reboot.