Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Stroller
<stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2009-01-23, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use
>>>> a Linux swap partition for swap/paging/vm/whatever-MS-calls-it:
>>>>
>>>> http://db.bme.hu/~surprof/SwapFs-i/
>>>
>>> That looks a really cool & useful idea.
>>>
>>> However, I have a reservation. Since you NEED to use it -
>>> perhaps for space considerations?
>>
>> Yup.  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.
>
> It might be possible to script removing the swap file at shutdown (or place
> a wrapper script to mount the partition & remove the swapfile before running
> ntfsclone). But I appreciate this is less elegant than just using the same
> swap partition  for both o/s.

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.

Paul