Silly Question: What's swap?

From: Chris Mantoulidis (cmad_x_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/12/03


Date: 12 Oct 2003 11:32:29 -0700

I know there are no silly questions, but I couldn't think of any other
adjective ;)

Anyway, I keep running into the word "swap" for Linux... What is that
anyway? And as a partition, how much space does it need (for a proper
"swap")?