I don’t know if its here or not or if this may be Ubuntu only. I upgraded my 16.10 to 17.04 which had a swap partition.
I think it’s new installs only.
Yes I agree, just not sure if the Ubuntu flavors will also get this. When alpha comes out I plan on a fresh install and then I’ll see whats up. Unless you already have it on your install.
No, I haven’t installed 17.04 yet. I’m also curious about the same thing.
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Hi @anon42388993,
if you already have a swap partition it won’t really be of any use to anyone, I tend not to worry about swap but set up a partition nonetheless!.
I read about this new fangled swap thingy on:
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Hey wolfman 
Actually nothing new about a swap file, its always been a option.
Later 
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Yep @anon42388993,
it was an option but most modern PC’s have so much RAM that it isn’t really necessary any more although the create a swap partition stills shows up when installing without first creating a swap partition!. AHHH, the good old days!. 
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They say the proof is in the (Christmas) pudding?! No, well? (sounds like Noel 
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Just performed a test clean install for you, using a Zesty image from few days ago, as long as no swap partition exists, then, same as with Ubuntu, a default 1GiB swap file is automatically created.
Benefit of a swap file, can be resized afterwards depending on needs.
Screen captures...
PS: Reason you see a 8.4MB (8MiB) partition, drive is set-up as gpt, so a tiny GRUB partition is required.
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Good to know, thanks
Hi !
I thougt Ubunut mate 17.04 will not use a swap partition when RAM >4GB.
My new installation (encrypted with default partition settings) creates a swap partition,
see /etc/fsatab:
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--mate--vg-root / ext4 discard,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=64f59812-dfa3-4df9-8417-6bad1fa84ebf /boot ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--mate--vg-swap_1 none swap sw 0 0
