Re: Swap space 'saving'

OOh nifty. I thought someone else in the thread had said you
couldn't. Makes sense I suppose. Have both operating systems
corrupt each others swap file on every boot :D

On 6-Dec-06, at 11:59 AM, Dylan Griffiths wrote:

> 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.
>
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Received on Wed Dec 6 13:17:47 2006