The swap partition is used when your system needs to move memory pages between the RAM and the disk. The root partition contains the operating system files, logs and configuration files. The boot partition has the boot loader files. Personally, I prefer having the following partition layout: When installing, you can omit most of them and have only a single partition where your Linux distribution will be installed. Actually, there is no reason to have lots of partitions. It is a myth that Linux requires many partitions on the hard drive. The swap file How to partition your hard drive for Linux Mint
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