On 2009-01-23, Stroller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2009-01-23, Stroller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 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 to use it -
>>> perhaps for space considerations?
>>
>> Yup. Mainly because I use ntfsclone to keep a bunch of backup
>> copies of the NTFS partition, and having a 2GB swap file in
>> every backup copy starts to eat up a lot of disk space.
>
> It might be possible to script removing the swap file at shutdown (or
> place a wrapper script to mount the partition & remove the swapfile
> before running ntfsclone).
I thought about that. It probably would be a bit more robust
than using the Linux swap partition, but it seemed too much
like giving in to Microsoft. :)
> But I appreciate this is less elegant than just using the same
> swap partition for both o/s.
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