agharbeia
May 12th, 2009, 02:51 PM
In an archived thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=112073), there was a discussion about sharing the partition between Linux and Windows in a dual-boot configuration, which could utilise otherwise unused space reserved exclusively for each operating system.
There's a filesystem driver, namely SwapFS (http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse), (which I haven't tried yet) which allows Windows to use the Linux Swap partition, probably to store its swap file. This has a benefit over the method mentioned by Milflyboy (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=790589&postcount=12) in that it doesn't fail when Windows is booted after Linux has been improperly shutdown (i.e. crashed).
My problem is a little more complex, however, as I encrypt my Linux swap partition, which means there will be no Linux swap file system when Linux shuts down. So I might end up having Linux create a stub filesystem on the swap partition when it's shutting down. Alternatively, the idea of loopmounting the Windows swapfile and using it for Linux could be worth something
I also second what Milflyboy wrote in that thread about not using Partition Magic to resize ext2|3 partitions as it corrupts them. Use [G]Parted instead for your paritioning chores.
There's a filesystem driver, namely SwapFS (http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse), (which I haven't tried yet) which allows Windows to use the Linux Swap partition, probably to store its swap file. This has a benefit over the method mentioned by Milflyboy (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=790589&postcount=12) in that it doesn't fail when Windows is booted after Linux has been improperly shutdown (i.e. crashed).
My problem is a little more complex, however, as I encrypt my Linux swap partition, which means there will be no Linux swap file system when Linux shuts down. So I might end up having Linux create a stub filesystem on the swap partition when it's shutting down. Alternatively, the idea of loopmounting the Windows swapfile and using it for Linux could be worth something
I also second what Milflyboy wrote in that thread about not using Partition Magic to resize ext2|3 partitions as it corrupts them. Use [G]Parted instead for your paritioning chores.