The swap partition is used by the OS in case the physical RAM runs out. Then it'll be able to move things to the swap partition and continue to run. You won't benefit from having swap on the external...
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The swap partition is used by the OS in case the physical RAM runs out. Then it'll be able to move things to the swap partition and continue to run. You won't benefit from having swap on the external...
Is there any particular reason as to why you have the extended partion with swap on the external drive?
I'd try again but with only one partion. A primary partition with ext3 (or maybe JFS but...