My apologies if this is a silly question.

I have a Dell Mini 9 with 2 GB memory and 64 GB SSD. I only plan to use this laptop when on the road, for maybe email, some basic word processing, spreadsheet work, etc. nothing too intensive.

In this context, can I skip creating/using a swap partition altogether? I have read that the typical recommendations for a swap partition is double the memory size. Seems to me a big waste to allocate 4 GB of space for swap when the entire OS needs only a couple of hundred MB at best in the memory and this laptop has 2 GB RAM.

I would rather use the extra space to store some music ;).

Thanks -MS