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 1LQmDd-0007JN-Sx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:22:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 178A3E0364; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7DEE0364 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:22:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46949646BA for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:22:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.317 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.317 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.126, 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 IbYhaObcoOT3 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:22:44 +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 51657647B3 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:22:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LQmDM-00005I-Pw for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:22:36 +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 17:22:36 +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 17:22:36 +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 17:22:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200901241044.09521.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <200901241552.28443.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: bb6a1be9-06ec-4759-a03f-c26faba157dd X-Archives-Hash: bc00d7b392b794bab5c3b245ed30dff2 On 2009-01-24, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 24 January 2009 15:35:32 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> 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... > > Ah, I didn't know that. In Win98, I think it was, I used to > put it on drive E, which was a logical disk in the extended > partition. I didn't actually try it, so maybe I was wrong -- but I swear I read that somewhere (and it sounded like the sort of restriction one would run into under Windows). [some googling] I can't find any confirmation for what I claimed about swap files on logical paritions. I must have mis-read something or conflated it with the restriction that XP itself can't be installed on a logical partition. :/ It looks like I could have created a small logical partition for an NTFS filesystem in which I could have placed the swap file. I still can't believe that Windows does it's swapping using a normal filesystem -- and by default it's the same filesystem used for system and application files. It seems like the filesystem code would end up being a serious bottleneck. But I long ago stopped trying to figure out why Windows does things... -- Grant