[plug] Windows and Linux SWAP

[Andrew Furey]

> > Is there some way to share a swap partition
> between windows and Linux?
> 
> Long awnser: you COULD, if you could convince linux
> to use fat32 as its 
> swap, and then make a new fat 32 partition and get
> windows and linux to 
> place there information in there.. but i'm not even
> sure if you can tell 
> linux to use a particular file system for its swap,
> other than a swap 
> partition :p

There is a Swap-Space mini-HOWTO describing how to do
this. It's a bit out of date (Dec99, RH6.0) but should
still be useful.

HTH
Andrew

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