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 1LQkYE-0004ys-E4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:36:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D2B0E0498; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27996E0498 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE3766474F for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:35:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.319 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.319 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.124, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, 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 RIdJlk22aQrL for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:35:53 +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 7DE1D6473B for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:35:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LQkXv-0004AF-0A for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:35:43 +0000 Received: from 67-220-10-117.usiwireless.com ([67.220.10.117]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:35:42 +0000 Received: from grante by 67-220-10-117.usiwireless.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:35:42 +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: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200901241044.09521.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-220-10-117.usiwireless.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) Sender: news 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 X-Archives-Salt: 49ac0c50-9b2c-449d-80dd-d6bc8785bf78 X-Archives-Hash: 1a4f527bae0b09fa1bc58d275df588e6 On 2009-01-24, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009 14:58:32 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> 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. > > In the days when I ran Windows I used to have at least one > partition other than C and force the swap file onto it, with > fixed size. Then I could just omit that partition from the > backup. > > Perhaps it's still possible to do that; I don't know, but it > might be worth a try. Yes, it's still possible to do that. I didn't figure out I _should_ do that until it was too late and the disk was partitioned and several OSes installed -- I didn't have a spare primary parition to put the swap file on. I had a bunch of spare extended partitions but all the docs say you can't put the XP swap file on en extended paritition (unless you use something like swapfs, which will work with an extended partition). -- Grant