From: dboese@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Darcy Boese) Subject: Swap Files Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1993 00:42:50 GMT
A lot of us Linux users are also DOS/Windows users, as you all know. And when
you run windows 3.x you have the option of creating a permanent swap file.
Is there any way for Linux to take advantage of this by using that swap file
as its own swap file? Certainly there is no useful information stored in any
of the swap files when it is not actually in use. And since it in contiguous
blocks you get the effect of a swap partition anyway...
What would be the procedure for actually setting this up? I have a 386 with
4 Meg RAM and a 12 Meg permanent swap file...