On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 08:00:02PM +0530, USM Bish wrote:
> 1. Mount the M$ partition
> 2. Win-3.11 swap file has a name (cannot recollect exactly now)
> 3. #dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/swapfile bs=1024 count=size_of_file

Wrong. if bs=1024 and count=n, n * 1024 bytes will be zeroed out on the
of=/path/swapfile (whose size is just n). You need bs=1 (which will of
course, make things pretty slow).

Binand


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