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Ravernomina
February 17th, 2009, 02:32 AM
Hey.. can i use my windows partition as swap memory partition? TYVM
Ravernomina
oldos2er
February 17th, 2009, 03:14 AM
Short answer: no.
Mark Phelps
February 17th, 2009, 06:50 PM
Longer answer (in case you want to know why NOT) ... Linux requires the partition to be formatted as Linux-swap; MS Windows requires partitions formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Reformatting the MS Windows partition would remove everything in it.
Ravernomina
February 19th, 2009, 05:40 AM
o i never knew it needed to be formated thats why i asked :P.

TYVM for all ur help