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

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2009-01-23, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> ...
>> 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.
>
>  From memory it's just to delete it, which is perfect.

That would eliminate the issue of a backup snapshot having 2GB
of pagefile.sys and 1.7GB of other stuff. 

> It would take too long to zero it out - I don't think that's
> the purpose. Instead, I think, it should prevent swapfile
> fragmentation - making it a very good general-purpose setting
> to enable.
>
> What would be really idea for the OP is some kind of grub
> setting & a bash script that formats the partition to the
> appropriate format for the o/s being booted. But you'd have to
> be clever about it to avoid long boot times.

I found some old postings from 6-8 years ago from people who
were trying to do that.  Nobody seemed to have come up with
anything that worked very well.  Since then disks have gotten
large enough that normal people don't care about a few GB.

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