State the difference between swap partition and a swap file?

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

 

The Linux Operating System uses reserved disk block in the hard drive to swap. This is known as Swap Partition as no other files can be traced in the swap partition. In case of Windows OS, the swap space or partition is called swap file or page file. 

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