You would have to use a fat16 formatted swap partition to use for both
Os'es.
How ever when you do this there is a problem with Windows working even more
sluggish.
Next you then have security issues as fat 16 can not be secured.
Also be advised that if you are using over 2 to 2.5 times your ram size for
swap you are actually not going to gain any
significant speed.
64 meg ram = 128 -160 meg swap
128 meg ram = 256 - 320 meg swap
256 meg ram = 512 - 640 meg swap etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eben King" <eben1@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] winswap as linux swap
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Mike wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:33:44 -0400 (EDT)
> > "Levi Bard" <levi@bard.sytes.net> wrote:
> >
> > > > Generally it's a partition under *ix. You can also use a file.
There's
> > > > even a way to use Windows' swap file if you double-boot.
> > >
> > > Yeah, I wish I'd known that years ago when I was dual-booting. I had
very
> > > limited space on my drive (actually a "restore" partition from the
> > > original manufacturer install), and my swap partition took too many
> > > precious MBs.
> >
> > There's a way to use windows swap as your linux swap??
>
> This won't work if Windows uses a NTFS drive, as writing to that
> filesystem is hazardous. Somewhere in /etc/(rc.d/), after you mount
> partitions (make sure you mount the Windows drive), 'mkswap
> /path/to/win386.swp ; swapon /path/to/win386.swp'. This should work with
> Windows 3.1; Windows 2000 has a high probability of using NTFS, in which
> case that's out.
>
> --
> -eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactar
> Your pretended fear lest error might step in is like the man who
> would keep all wine out of the country lest men should be drunk.
> -- Oliver Cromwell
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