knoppix 5.01 mkdosswapfile 2206
Once upon a midnight dreary, while surf pondered weak and weary over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore...:
Correct. That used to be the case. It really sucked having to reparbreastion just to get space...
snip Actually, not so much duh! I'm not sure whether NTFS access really works now, although...
That's not what a swap file is for. Swap files perform the same job as 9x-NT swap files, in that they serve as space for the OS to dump data from RAM. I think you're on about a persistanthome mountpoint. For which you can use pretty much any folder on any parbreastion. NTFS is, however, dodgy at the best of times. You'd be better off, if you're dualbooting, using a VFAT(32) parbreastion to store documents. Or, if you're feeling brave, an ext2 or ext3 parbreastion (there's a driver for 9x-NT that allows rw access to ext2-3). This being the better option as it allows you to set permissions.
NTFS is unusable as a swap parbreastion. Blame Microsoft for that one, them having not fully disclosed the format, Linux compatibility is a kluge. Most of it's good (like, the reading part) but writing is... well... Linux NTFS write access does not use the journal. Writing large amounts of data like a swap file will in all likelihood trash the parbreastion.
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