From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Sharing a swap partition: Linux and Windows? Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 17:16:34 GMT
In article <C76952.6pz@acsu.buffalo.edu>, mongwa@acsu.buffalo.edu (Kan Mongwa) writes:
| In article <1993May17.100725.23712@aston.ac.uk> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
| >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?
Good point! When the idea was posted it sounded really good, but
trying to rewrite the swap partition during shutdown sounds a great way
to have a learning experience. I think my original idea about the DOS
format in autoexec was the way to go. At least it's known to work.
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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; 518-387-6489
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