.. and often the only solution for a VM/hosted machine. It gives you a flexibility you otherwise not have, expand/shrink when needed; a partition is static/fixe

.. and often the only solution for a VM/hosted machine. It gives you a flexibility you otherwise not have, expand/shrink when needed; a partition is static/fixed in place. Often used them, and still do; `dd of=/swapfile if/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024`/`mkswap`, and `swapon`.