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.
Swap file. Alternatively referred to as a page file or paging file, a swap file is a file on a hard drive that is used as a temporary location to store information not being used by the computer RAM.owever, users who are low on hard drive space may notice that the computer runs slower because of the inability of the swap file to grow. It is perfectly normal for the swap file or page file to grow, sometimes growing several hundred megs in size.