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On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 00:38:02 -0700
LuKreme <kremels@kreme.com> wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2018, at 08:18, Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk> wrote:
> > Swap areas have been replaced by page areas on disk, but the name stuck.
> 
> Should the installer then be creating a dedicated swap partition? It
> seems not.

	Yes of course it should, it's the place where pages that aren't
backed by storage can be written to when needed.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>