SWAP Partition in Linux

From: _Zach (zachc_at_bloomberg.com)
Date: 03/31/05 

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:03:49 GMT

I am manually creating partitions in Linux - can someone tell me if SWAP
partition should be on Logical or Primary partition - or does it even
matter?

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