Like Windows, Ubuntu 17.04 now uses a swap file | Linux Today

Like Windows, Ubuntu 17.04 now uses a swap file

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Apr 19, 2017

If you’ve downloaded and installed the latest Ubuntu 17.04, one of the new features you probably didn’t notice is that the system was installed without a dedicated swap partition. That’s because a new installation of Ubuntu 17.04 uses a swap file, instead of a swap partition. Yup, just like Windows, swap file has come to Ubuntu.

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