Another issue to consider when planning your partitions is swap space. If you wish to use swap space with Linux, you have two options. Thefirst is to use a swap file which exists on one of your Linuxfilesystems. You will create the swap file for use as virtual RAM afteryou install the software. The second option is to create a swap partition , an individual partition to be used only as swapspace.
Most people use a swap partition instead of a swap file.
A single swap file or partition may be up to 16 megabytes in size. For example, if you need32 megabytes of swap, you can create two 16-megabyte swap partitions. There are, of course, many variations on the above, but this is theminimal setup. You are not required to use swap space with Linux, but ifyou have less than 16 megabytes of physical RAM it is strongly suggested that you do. Of course, you need to be aware of how much space these partitionswill require.