Re: knoppix 5.01 mkdosswapfile ?

Once upon a midnight dreary, while surf pondered weak and weary over many a
quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore...:


I am runing knoppix 5.01 from a live cd on my HP laptop/windows XP.
How can I set up a swap file on dos to save files permenantly ?

That's not what a swap file is for. Swap files perform the same job as 9x/NT
swap files, in that they serve as space for the OS to dump data from RAM.
I think you're on about a persistant /home mountpoint. For which you can use
pretty much any folder on any partition. NTFS is, however, dodgy at the
best of times. You'd be better off, if you're dualbooting, using a VFAT(32)
partition to store documents. Or, if you're feeling brave, an ext2 or ext3
partition (there's a driver for 9x/NT that allows rw access to ext2/3).
This being the better option as it allows you to set permissions.

If I
run mkdosswapfile as root or anyway it says -> no useble partions
available for swapfile. my partitions show permisions of -rw-r--r--r


NTFS is unusable as a swap partition. Blame Microsoft for that one, them
having not fully disclosed the format, Linux compatibility is a kluge. Most
of it's good (like, the reading part) but writing is... well... Linux NTFS
write access does not use the journal. Writing large amounts of data like a
swap file will in all likelihood trash the partition.

thanks

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