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partition was automatically created for you if you chose the default partitioning 
scheme during installation, and if you didn't create a swap partition when 
partitioning your server, the installer would yell at you for it. However, a swap 
partition is no longer created by default in modern versions of Ubuntu, and the 
installer will create a 
swap
 
file
 (rather than a partition) for you automatically. You 
may still see swap partitions on older installations, but going forward, this is the best 
way to handle it. At least until something better comes around. If you need more 
swap space, you can delete the 
swap
 file and recreate it. That's definitely an easier 
thing to do than having to resize your partition tables in order to enlarge swap, 
which is potentially dangerous if you make a mistake during the process.
Therefore, I'm not going to talk about creating a swap partition in this edition of the 
book, as there's no reason to do so anymore.

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