On 2009-01-24, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> 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
