From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: Sharing a swap partition: Linux and Windows? Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 10:07:25 GMT
william E Davidsen (davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM) wrote:
:
: 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.
You could modify the Linux shutdown to put a DOS FAT on the partition,
that is faster than running format.