What is the swap space in the disk used for?

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What is the swap space in the disk used for?

1. Saving temporary HTML pages
2. Saving process data
3. Storing the super-block
4. Storing device drivers

Correct Option: B

Let us assume that CPU contains two processes when one process is being executed on the CPU the other one is swapped out and all the data is saved on the disk. Thus the swap space is basically used for saving the process data.