From: pfau@coffee.enet.dec.com (Thomas Pfau) Subject: Re: Sharing a swap partition: Linux and Windows? Date: Sat, 15 May 1993 17:44:54 GMT
In article <C70IGG.62y@sci.kun.nl>, pieterh@sci.kun.nl (Peter Herweijer)
writes...
>In <1993May13.170229.18156@nrao.edu> rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU (Richard Gooch)
writes:
>>> [...] I let Windoze create a swap file on the DOS partition, the size
>>> of which is slightly larger than the Linux swapspace I want to have.
>>> Then I figure out where exactly this swap file is located in terms
>>> of sectors/heads/cylinders. I set up a Linux swap partition _inside_
>>> this swap file. [...]
>
>> Oh, my! Don't ever unfragment your DOG drive again (or you'll be sorrry, he,
>> he).
>
>Not so. The Windoze permanent swap file isn't touched by any defragger
>I know---I suspect that would lead to major trouble unless Windoze does
>a sanity check before using it.
Doubt it very much. Just the slightest problem with my swap file and
Windoze hangs. Such well written software...
tom_p
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