--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-24 10:49:10 +0930]: > > > >>How can a swap partition be read-only? How can a disk be used as > swap > >>without overwriting (probably FAT32) partitions on the disk? > > > > > > It would only mount a swap partition if the type marked was linux > > swap previously. Otherwise it won't use it. > > > > Bob > > But in the case of low RAM, if a Linux partition is not available, > Knoppix uses the Windows partition and creates a swap file (not a > swap > partition). > > Kent
Does it use "freespace" on the drive, or will it destroy data from the windows partition? Shawn __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
