On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 22:11 +0000, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: > Ok. So is swap not considered a filesystem by convention, or for some other > reason?
As the name suggests, the most important attribute of a filesystem is files. Whereas swap is a trick for using disk storage as if it were extra (albeit very slow) RAM. They're completely different things. Simon.
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