Re: [SLUG] winswap as linux swap

From: Steve (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 02:41:19 EDT


On Sunday 24 August 2003 02:28 am, you wrote:
> On Saturday 23 August 2003 09:49 pm, you wrote:
> > There's a way to use windows swap as your linux swap??
> > I have a 1 gig swap partition (yeah i know that huge, but i have the
> > space and use graphics/music/video apps ;) ) I also have a seperate
> > linux swap partition. Anyone have a link on how to do this. I have a
> > seperate partition for photoshops swap, and am going to try to use this
> > as swap for the gimp as well. It's fat32. Thanx
>
> No no no! This is NUTS! I mean I've never tried it but it sounds crazy!

Maybe I got this wrong. Are you talking about swap for GIMP? Why have a
special partition for that? What's the benefits? I've never looked into
that for GIMP, but ext2/ext3 is very efficient with not letting files get
defragged.

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