swap file in English
noun
1
a file on a hard disk used to provide space for programs that have been transferred from the processor's memory.
The Linux filesystem also supports sparse files, so swapfiles only consume the amount of disk space needed by their non-zero data.
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1. The presence of immovable system files, especially a swap file, can impede defragmentation.