When installing Windows 10, 8 or 7 they say that they will create a swap partition. What does this partition exactly? I would think that it is like the page file, a space that Windows uses when he runs out of RAM, but Windows also creates automatically the page file so then... Both do the same? What is the difference?
Not something I'm familiar with- nor is it an option I've seen in a normal installation of Windows. Sure you can find references to creating a dedicated swap partition for a page file but that's something you'd have to do manually - if there was any real justification for doing so. Certainly installing Win 7-10 doesn't create such a partition.
Can you quote a reference- where have you read this?
Never known windows create that and have installed 1,000s it creates a system parition which it boot from a swap parition is normal for linux
A standard Windows install creates C:\pagefile.sys (which is the page file and is used like a swap file in other OS) and since Windows 8 a much smaller C:\swapfile.sys which is used by universal apps. Neither are separate partitions - they are just files in the root of the C partition.
Hiberfil.sys, Pagefile.sys & the New Swapfile.sys file - Windows
Sorry, I confused the system partition and I thought it was a swap partition...
Thanks for your answers
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