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Old 07-03-2006, 11:40 PM   #1
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ntfs swap ?

***Edit*** With the apparent success of write capabilities in puppy, I thought this post could use a revisit. ***End edit***

Just wondering if any distros have been working on a way to use an existing ntfs partition as a swap partition.
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Old 07-03-2006, 11:54 PM   #2
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I highly doubt it. If you can have a dedicated swap partition you might as well use a regular old swap file on a better supported type of partition such as ext3. As NTFS support gets better, it will probably become possible to create a swap file on an NTFS partition, but why would you want to?
 
Old 07-04-2006, 07:45 AM   #3
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I think probably he don't want to add/waste disk space for the swap, and prefer using windows partition to keep swap file (some good ideal right?) since windows is not running at all.

Unfortunately currently linux is not well support the NTFS partition and I may cause you ntfs data corrupt. And, so far I haven't hear any body using others kind of partition as swap space.

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Old 07-04-2006, 09:10 AM   #4
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yeah, thats pretty much what I figured. Thanks guys.
 
  


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