On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM, 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). But I appreciate this is less elegant than just using the same > swap partition for both o/s.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834 There is a registry setting in Windows to "clear" the pagefile.sys at shutdown. What does "clear" mean? To overwrite with 0? To delete? I don't know. Paul
