Swap partition

[Tim Frost]

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:04 +0100, Umut Tabak wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I am new to ubuntu and linux os. I have created a swap partition(5 GB)
> while installing ubuntu for file exchange with windows.

You misunderstand the purpose of the swap partition.

The Linux kernel uses the swap partition to store the working memory of
programs that are running.  This is similar to what Windows uses
pagefile.sys FILE for.


There is an EXT2/EXT3 filesystem module for MSWindows, and Linux can
mount FAT/VFAT partitions read-write.  There is a Linux driver for NTFS,
but I understand that there are issues with using that to WRITE to an
NTFS partition.

>  The problem is
> that I can not find that partition in linux moreover I have a drive
> called sda2(the one linux is installed on is sda1 I guess ??) but when I
> try to open that(sda2) I receive a message that I do not have permission
> to view files. Could you please help me on this.
> 
> Many thanks in advance and regards.
> 
> Umut Tabak
> 

Tim