On 4 April 2014 23:17, Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> wrote: > you can mount_ntfs locally readwrite, and point the swap file to > the windows pagefile. I believe that should work because the write code for > NTFS is complete but the block allocation and freeing code is missing, but > you don't need that
I tried but it didn't work. I couldn't chmod the pagefile to 600: -bash-4.2# chmod 600 /mnt/pagefile.sys chmod: /mnt/pagefile.sys: Operation not supported On 4 April 2014 21:06, Benny Siegert <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2) Create a msdos partition, create a pagefile on it and mount it on both >> OS's > > Not sure if Windows likes that. I took that from a quite old Linux-howto. I think Windows 7 should accept that. Would it be enough for Netbsd? Would Netbsd allow me to change permission on a ms-dos mounted file? >> 3) NetBsd should have its own swap partition > > This is definitely the best solution. Disk space is not that expensive > any more, just use a few gigs for each. My old Thinkpad has 80G, of which more than 60 taken by Windows. I can remove something but any Gig saved is welcome. Ottavio
