From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis) Subject: Sharing swap with other OS's Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1993 10:57:00 +0000
* In message <892@esquire.dpw.com>, Colin Jenkins said:
CJ> I run Xenix, Linux, MSDOS, and Windows 3.1. Since I have to
CJ> allocate separate swap areas for everything (except DOS), I am
CJ> "wasting" lots of space. Has anyone found ways to share swap areas?
The key is probably to use a partition for swap space. When you boot Linux
you need to have it do an mkswap on the partition and then swapon on it (see
bootsys3.taz). When you boot Xenix you want to have it swap in the partition
rather than looking for a divvy'd area within it. I can't think wether or
not this is possible off hand. It ought to be. Try looking at the boot man
pages. With Windoze you would need to put a format command in autoexec.bat
to format the partition and have Win use a temporary swap file (no great
loss, it's a new partition so it would be contiguous anyway). Of course,
thanks to the way DROSS allocates drive letters, you could really screw up
if you add another drive...
Verdict? Yeah, it's possible. Sort of...
Mike