From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Sharing a swap partition: Linux and Windows? Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 18:44:09 GMT
In article <1993May18.134943.25799@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
| The problem that arises (apart from the fact that Linux doesn't have
| support to do this right now - and hence Stephen's solution may be here
| sooner) is that Windows may not like what the swap file looks like when it
| starts up. I would hope that there would be an option to win.com or a
| separate utility somewhere to initialise the swapfile to some minimally
| recognisable form, if windows insists on interpretting data in the swap
| file at bootup. I'm not holding my breath.
As I recall, when I tried this I did some like this:
AUTOEXEC.BAT:
echo Y >yesfile
format d: <yesfile
Clearing a 10MB swap partition added <15 sec to my startup of DOS.
Considering how seldom I boot DOS, I can't put much effort into
improving this by a few seconds. And yes, I use DOS, but I tend to boot
it and use it, not swap back an forth, so if I boot a 2nd time in a day,
that's a lot.
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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; 518-387-6489
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