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 1LQPRF-0003f9-Qw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:03:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B36AAE0577; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:03:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A5FE0577 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:03:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA1064534 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:03:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.27 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.27 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.106, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION=0.156] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id iQ0klnQWpzsZ for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E0764616 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:03:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LQPQt-0003n8-DB for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:03:03 +0000 Received: from 64.251.14.41 ([64.251.14.41]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:03:03 +0000 Received: from grante by 64.251.14.41 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:03:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:02:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.251.14.41 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 43968f7e-d6ab-453d-9386-32e1334aadcb X-Archives-Hash: 93bf8a72270745b636c2a5bf0d87e5db On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote: > 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). I thought about that. It probably would be a bit more robust than using the Linux swap partition, but it seemed too much like giving in to Microsoft. :) > But I appreciate this is less elegant than just using the same > swap partition for both o/s. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Everybody is going at somewhere!! It's probably visi.com a garage sale or a disaster Movie!!