From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQg16-00082z-KB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:45:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68357E03D0; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40AE6E03D0 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF3DDEEA1 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:45:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id h5eJPrV9wcP4 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:27:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.ethnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3377EDEE31 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:45:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:44:09 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901241044.09521.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 8d21fc95-e7e8-46aa-8335-852a72d590e0 X-Archives-Hash: 28718389bade2ec848d83d03ca088e6b On Friday 23 January 2009 14:58:32 Grant Edwards wrote: > Mainly because I use ntfsclone to keep a bunch of backup copies of the > NTFS partition, and having a 2GB swap file in every backup copy starts to > eat up a lot of disk space. In the days when I ran Windows I used to have at least one partition other than C and force the swap file onto it, with fixed size. Then I could just omit that partition from the backup. Perhaps it's still possible to do that; I don't know, but it might be worth a try. -- Rgds Peter