Update: not only doable, but done.

This would be a way:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/512MiB.swap bs=1024 count=524288
sudo chmod 600 /mnt/512MiB.swap
sudo mkswap /mnt/512MiB.swap
sudo swapon /mnt/512Mib.swap

I didn't know that one could mount and unmount swap so easily with the
system already running. I understand now why this is low priority, since it
can be done outside live-build.

I know I didn't exactly discovered America here, but anyways, I hope it's
useful for those like me who had no clue.


2013/12/11 Marcos Núñez <[email protected]>

> Would this imply changes to the scripts or something more complex? To be
> short: is it already possible to create a swapfile on an NTFS partition? As
> far as I understand, it is not... and if so, I believe this would be beyond
> live-debian
>
>
> 2013/12/11 Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>
>
>> On 12/11/2013 08:21 PM, Marcos Núñez wrote:
>> > Is there any way to create a swapfile in an NTFS partition (to be chosen
>> > at boot time) and to be deleted during shutdown?
>>
>> there's initial code in live-boot lingering around for a couple of
>> years. patches welcome to finish it up.
>>
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