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 1LQOa1-00073t-UJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:08:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 235CFE095B; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE4C6E095B for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:08:22 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,312,1231113600"; d="scan'208";a="67160627" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 23 Jan 2009 16:08:21 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.71] (unknown [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2688137B89 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:08:17 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:08:13 +0000 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-Archives-Salt: 6bfa843f-7c65-4c09-9a3d-bf6f1d492dcb X-Archives-Hash: b62dc03e25716eb0b7d6f0137b660665 On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-23, Stroller 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.