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Why it is showing the swap usage without an actual swap partition ?

Is it good to create swap partition with ssd storage ?

OS: Ubuntu 20.04

System monitor shows partitions and memory usage:

Partitions

Memory Usage

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answered 3 Years ago mocipe · Accepted Answer

Ubuntu 18.04+ uses a fixed size swapfile of 2 GB located at /swapfile instead of a partition.

You can easily grow or reduce this swapfile without repartitioning.