<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>Linux Swap Space Mini-HOWTO</TITLE> <LINK HREF="Swap-Space-1.html" REL=next> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="Swap-Space-1.html">Next</A> Previous Contents <HR> <H1>Linux Swap Space Mini-HOWTO</H1> <H2>Rahul Sundaram <A HREF="mailto:rahulsundaram AT yahoo DOT co DOT in">rahulsundaram@yahoo.co.in</A></H2>v1.6, 2002-12-27 <P><HR> <EM>This Linux Mini-HOWTO describes how to share your Linux swap partition with Windows.</EM> <HR> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc1">1.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-1.html">Introduction</A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc2">2.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-2.html">What you need</A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc3">3.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-3.html">Recent Changes and versions</A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc4">4.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-4.html">Administrative</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Swap-Space-4.html#ss4.1">4.1 Copyright</A> <LI><A HREF="Swap-Space-4.html#ss4.2">4.2 Disclaimer</A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc5">5.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-5.html">Before you begin</A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc6">6.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-6.html">The Procedure </A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Swap-Space-6.html#ss6.1">6.1 Turn off swapping and create a DOS partition </A> <LI><A HREF="Swap-Space-6.html#ss6.2">6.2 Tell Windows the location of the new swap file </A> <LI><A HREF="Swap-Space-6.html#ss6.3">6.3 Back up the Total Special Sectors </A> <LI><A HREF="Swap-Space-6.html#ss6.4">6.4 Modify the initialization and shutdown scripts to handle our new configuration </A> <LI><A HREF="Swap-Space-6.html#ss6.5">6.5 Reenable swapping </A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc7">7.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-7.html">A couple of notes </A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc8">8.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-8.html">What are we exactly doing ? </A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc9">9.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-9.html">The swapinit.sh script </A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc10">10.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-10.html">The swaphalt.sh script </A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc11">11.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-11.html">The msinfo.sh script </A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc12">12.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-12.html">The original msinfo file </A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc13">13.</A> <A HREF="Swap-Space-13.html">Acknowledgements, feedback and dedication</A></H2> <HR> <A HREF="Swap-Space-1.html">Next</A> Previous Contents </BODY> </HTML>
