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Name: Saeed Omer
Date: January 15, 2001 at 21:52:21 Pacific
Subject: What is
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I need information on a "/swap". What is this folder for? and where I can find it in the Unix system?

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Name: Nick
Date: January 18, 2001 at 09:20:37 Pacific
Subject: What is
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You mean swap space? or a file system /swap ?

Swap space is usually the /tmp directory. As a general rule most people make /tmp 2x the size of the memory. But this is not always the case.


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