Re: The need of swap partition while installing linux

[Jon Masters <jonmasters@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/3/05, Libin Varghese <libinv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>     My question is why do we need the swap partition?

You don't need to have one, but it's a good idea if you have the disk
space and would like to use more memory than is physically installed
into your system.

> I seem to be asking the wrong group, I will really appreciate if
> anyone could give me the mail id for the linux setup mailing list.

There is no such list. However, there are lists like linuxmanagers
(http://www.linuxmanagers.org/) as well as your local Linux User Group
- for the UK we have a http://www.lug.org.uk/ clearing house of the
different LUGs but your region may differ.

Jon.

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