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From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:16:02 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <glbjqi$ptv$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)

For reasons that probably aren't interesting, I needed to
eliminate the Windows XP swap file from the "C:" NTFS parition
of one of my multi-boot machines [no matter how cheap and fast
disks get, partitions still seem to fill up, and backups still
take too long]. 

That machine had a 2GB Linux swap partition. After googling for
a while, 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/

Maybe others who do a lot of multi-booting all know about
swapfs, but my finding it took quite a bit of searching and
chasing down useless google hits.  Next time I need to find it,
hopefully I'll be able to find this posting...

-- 
Grant




             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-23  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-23  5:16 Grant Edwards [this message]
2009-01-23 12:44 ` [gentoo-user] Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP Stroller
2009-01-23 14:58   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-23 16:08     ` Stroller
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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