pagefile instead of swap

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MadMan2k a écrit :
| By default the ubuntu installer creates a swap partition and complains
| if you don't create one during manual partitioning.
| But I think a swap partition is quite inflexible - imagine a user
| upgrades his PC so he wont need one any more - then he will
| have to repartition his drive to get rid of the swap partition.
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| Wouldn't it make much more sense to create a page file, which one can
| move around resize and delete and recreate without having to touch the
| partition-table. I#m still unsure whether it has a performance impact
| though...
|
| M2k
|

The idea behind having a swap partition is to separate the access to
swap files and data files. On the other hand, if you need to resize your
~ swap partition, you wouldn't need to touch your data/system partition
where your pagefile will grow over those.
About the performance impact... What I'd see is possibly slower access
to the swap files depending on the FS type used.
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