From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Sharing a swap partition: Linux and Windows? Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 16:50:28 GMT
In article <C6yt8n.7xz@sci.kun.nl>, pieterh@sci.kun.nl (Peter Herweijer) writes:
| That leads me to a completely unholy idea that just might work.
| However, before I back up my harddisk and try it, I would appreciate
| some net.wisdom on the feasibility of this thing. The gist of it
| is: I let Windoze create a swap file on the DOS partition, the size
| of which is slightly larger than the Linux swapspace I want to have.
| Then I figure out where exactly this swap file is located in terms
| of sectors/heads/cylinders. I set up a Linux swap partition _inside_
| this swap file. The partitioning software will probably cry
| blasphemy because of overlapping partitions, but I'll ignore that.
There's an easier way, which is known to work. Create a swap
partition, and use it as normal with Linux. When booting DOS, do a dos
format on that partition. Put your swap file in that partition, and make
it temporary. At the minor expense of the time to format the partition
on DOS boot, you use all access methods known to work.
Several people on the net have reported using this, and it worked for
me when I tried it, but I don't use it regularly.
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