Re: hard drives - upgrades n stuff

Shawn Bayern (shawn.bayern@yale.edu)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 23:32:37 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Ken Lai wrote:

> One nice thing to have is a shared swap partition between doze and linux.
> I keep a 100MB partition on my 'doze drive that I use for swap in both
> OS's (though I haven't booted 'doze in months); this way, memory swapping
> (which happens too much for me) and other disk activity won't interfere
> with each other.

Are you sure? When your data and swap partitions are on the same physical
disk, they interfere with each other regardless of how you've partitioned.
(I guess you win by putting it on the Windows drive if you don't boot
Windows much, though.)

Shawn