What is a SWAP Partition?

Novell Cool Solutions: Question & Answer

Posted: 14 Apr 2005

Q:
What is a swap-Partition? What can I do with it? What do I need it for?

A:
The swap-partition is something like the swap-files under Windows. When physical RAM is used up, the swap partition is used as though it were RAM.

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