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On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2009-01-23, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>>> ... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use |
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>>> a Linux swap partition for swap/paging/vm/whatever-MS-calls-it: |
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>>> http://db.bme.hu/~surprof/SwapFs-i/ |
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>> That looks a really cool & useful idea. |
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>> However, I have a reservation. Since you NEED to use it - |
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>> perhaps for space considerations? |
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> Yup. Mainly because I use ntfsclone to keep a bunch of backup |
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> copies of the NTFS partition, and having a 2GB swap file in |
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> every backup copy starts to eat up a lot of disk space. |
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It might be possible to script removing the swap file at shutdown (or |
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place a wrapper script to mount the partition & remove the swapfile |
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before running ntfsclone). But I appreciate this is less elegant than |
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just using the same swap partition for both o/s. |
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Stroller. |
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