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 1LQkof-0006em-QN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:53:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C31A6E04BC; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:53:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E161E04BC for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:53:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0648DDEF36 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:53:03 +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 Go2EFrgNzgE7 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:35:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.ethnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB33EDEF5B for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:53:02 +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 15:52:28 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200901241044.09521.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901241552.28443.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 358bbd17-9b71-40e2-8795-b6d6e3fccf7a X-Archives-Hash: f085acff891acefe4aa766f28fbe2457 On Saturday 24 January 2009 15:35:32 Grant Edwards wrote: > I didn't have a spare primary parition to put the swap file on. I had a > bunch of spare extended partitions but all the docs say you can't put the > XP swap file on en extended paritition... Ah, I didn't know that. In Win98, I think it was, I used to put it on drive E, which was a logical disk in the extended partition. -- Rgds Peter