From: Kan Mongwa (mongwa@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: 05/17/93


From: mongwa@acsu.buffalo.edu (Kan Mongwa)
Subject: Re: Sharing a swap partition: Linux and Windows?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 12:53:25 GMT

In article <1993May17.100725.23712@aston.ac.uk> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
>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.

And how do you do that?

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