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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows  XP
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:53:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <03885367-185B-40C1-A06D-43E2B21C4692@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0901230909r33826d46qa139b00588298809@mail.gmail.com>


On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote:
> ...
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834
>
> There is a registry setting in Windows to "clear" the pagefile.sys at
> shutdown. What does "clear" mean? To overwrite with 0? To delete? I
> don't know.

 From memory it's just to delete it, which is perfect.

It would take too long to zero it out - I don't think that's the  
purpose. Instead, I think, it should prevent swapfile fragmentation -  
making it a very good general-purpose setting to enable.

What would be really idea for the OP is some kind of grub setting & a  
bash script that formats the partition to the appropriate format for  
the o/s being booted. But you'd have to be clever about it to avoid  
long boot times.

Stroller.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-23 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-23  5:16 [gentoo-user] Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP Grant Edwards
2009-01-23 12:44 ` Stroller
2009-01-23 14:58   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-23 16:08     ` Stroller
2009-01-23 17:02       ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-23 17:09       ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-23 20:53         ` Stroller [this message]
2009-01-23 21:10           ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-24 14:20             ` Stroller
2009-01-23 21:11           ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-24 10:44     ` Peter Humphrey
2009-01-24 15:35       ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-24 15:52         ` Peter Humphrey
2009-01-24 17:22           ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-24 19:02             ` ABCD
2009-01-24 20:42               ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-24 21:39             ` Stroller
2009-01-24 23:04               ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-25  2:48                 ` ABCD

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