On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:15:05 +0000 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:44:58 -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > > > YMMV, I tried that, but WinXP still left an unmoveable file in the > > middle of the disk even after turning off virtual memory. I'm not a > > windows expert, so I don't have a clue what the file was. So, I was > > left with the convenience of getting half the space freed quickly and > > the inconvenience of some unused space in the WinXP partition. > > I dealt with that by booting back into XP and running the defragmenter > again, which put the swap file back in the middle of the new partition. > then I could halve its size again. > > This thread adequately shows why i like linux. if this was a linux problem someone would be annoyed enough by now to find out why the swap file was in a funny place and introduced a patch to change it. > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Q-Tip: When an omnipotent alien gives you advice. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
