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I want to use a swap file instead of partition.

I don't have any experience in using partition manager. I don't want to lose my current data on disk.

I tried Wubi before and got a bad experience.

Korkel
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If you don't want to use swap partition, just don't create it during installation. Choose manual partitioning in Ubuntu installer, create partition for / file system with ext4 and that's it. Ubuntu will run without swap partition, and you can add swap file then.

You can create a swap file of two gigabytes by doing the following commands:

$ sudo fallocate -l 2048M /myswap

$ sudo chmod 600 /myswap

$ sudo mkswap /myswap

$ sudo swapon /myswap

Add swap entry to /etc/fstab file:

/myswap none swap defaults 0 0

Now you have swap as file /myswap instead of traditional swap partition.