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Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions by SomeoneFromCA on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:12PM (#23463271)
Yo do not need a partition, you can use a file.
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Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions by dTal on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:03AM (#23464985)
True. It's still a fixed size.

(It's also slower. The reason we use partitions is to avoid invoking a whole heap of filesystem code every time we want to access some memory.)

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