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Originally Posted by Xaccers
No point putting you swap file in a different patition. It gives you no benifit if you only have one hard drive (ie a laptop).
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The whole point of having a separate partition for the swap file (just as Linux does) is to avoid fragmentation of it which can slow the system down.
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
If you have a second hard drive in your PC you can improve things by moving your swap file off your primary hard drive.
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Very true, I use both of the methods mentioned here which gives me excellent performance.
Anyway, back to the original poster - if you don't know what a swap file does, just leave it alone.
