Paris Nord Train Station. Paris Nord Train Station. The Paris Nord Train Station (Gare du Nord) was originally built in 1846. Shortly after, it was rebuilt three times to increase the size of the station due to increasing traffic. The new and improved station was fully functional by 1864.
Linux has two forms of swap space: the swap partition and the swap file. The swap partition is an independent section of the hard disk used solely for swapping; no other files can reside there. The swap file is a special file in the filesystem that resides amongst your system and data files. To see what swap space you have, use the command swapon -s.
On Linux, the equivalent to the Windows paging file is the swap partition. Because this is a partition and not just a file, you have to make a choice about the size of your swap partition when installing Linux.indows and Linux also use their page file and swap space for other purposes: 1  Windows Crash Dumps: On Windows, the page file is used for crash dumps. 2  To create a complete memory dump, the page file must be at least the size of the physical memory + 1 MB.