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 16:08:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BE681EC5-2FEA-4C1C-A24C-D9871CB32C48@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <glclun$qot$2@ger.gmane.org>
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.
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-23 16:08 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 [this message]
2009-01-23 17:02 ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-23 17:09 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-23 20:53 ` Stroller
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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