This one time, at band camp, Grant Parnell wrote: >On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > >> >> Yes. Whats more, if you've got Linux and Windows dual-booting on a machine >> >> it's even possible to share the same disk between the Linux swapspace and >> >> the Windows swapfile (or at least, it was under Win95 - not sure about >> >> anything later). >> > >> >Ewww yuk! I wouldn't recommend that. >> >> Why not? Reasons, man. > >Did you literally mean 'disk' or 'partition' or 'file' when you said disk?
Not me. (p.s. fix your mailer, i set mail-followup-to for a reason) >For some reason I was thinking you meant use the same swapfile otherwise I >don't see the relevance of which particular Windows version ... oh wait, >the filesystem. Yes, Pete was saying you back up the filesystem that the windows swapfile is on, then you mkswap that partition... on shutdown you swapoff then unpack the filesystem back onto that partition. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg If you're in Chernobil you don't need a low-radiation monitor. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
