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

2009-01-23 Thread Stroller
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

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

2009-01-22 Thread Grant Edwards
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