Why wouldn't you want a swap partition? I guess if your disk space is limited but without a swap permission if your system fills up it has no where to go. Rejean Proulx Visit me at http://rejeanproulx.net Ham License VA3REJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <romualt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:43 PM Subject: a sort of dumb memory question Sorry, this got posted with no subject before, so I'm reposting again. If I have 128 Mb of physical RAM, do I still need to create a swap partition? Greg _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup