Re: Swap space 'saving'

Tony Arkles wrote:
> Well, we've come to the conclusion that you can't use the Windows swap
> file, but yes, you can use a file.

We have? AFAIK, you can do this just fine. It was being done plenty
about 8 years ago, when 320gb drives were more expensive than a brand
new RX-8!

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Swap-Space.html

I think it's easier to set Windows to format its shared swap partition
in the bootscript (autoexec.bat), but that only works with Win9x; using
the FS restoration script in the howto is a lot more compatible with
WinNT 4.0+.

You could also do an mkswap/swapon on a mounted FAT32 partition's
swapfile every time Linux boots. Windows will recovery a "corrupt"
swapfile fine.
Received on Wed Dec 6 11:59:46 2006