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Post Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:02 am
I'm about to install Fedora core 4 on my laptop. But the issue is that I have 1 GB RAM and it is usually advised to have the swap parition as twice the size of ur RAM so I'll be wasting 2 gig of space in swap.
Now what I want to ask is that can I share this swap partition among my win xp installation and fedora installation. Am unsure cuz I've always kept the filesystem on swap partition as "swap". So, can and should it be formatted to FAT32??

EDIT: I Found my answer on the net....
If anyone else is interested in the same, take a look at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/23/2005/07/2/109511

But be warned that I havent tried it myself as yet...Will be trying it out most prbbly this weekend if I get sm time and let u guys know abt the result...


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Re: Swap partition sharing in Fedora core 4 and Windows XP
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:18 am
shantanu wrote:
I'm about to install Fedora core 4 on my laptop. But the issue is that I have 1 GB RAM and it is usually advised to have the swap parition as twice the size of ur RAM so I'll be wasting 2 gig of space in swap.
Now what I want to ask is that can I share this swap partition among my win xp installation and fedora installation. Am unsure cuz I've always kept the filesystem on swap partition as "swap". So, can and should it be formatted to FAT32??

I used this when I set up my roommate's laptop with FC3 and Win XP. Was quite useful:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/23/2005/07/2/109511
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:20 am
Hey madnani,

I stumbled onto the same link...thnx neways for the info and moreover for the added assurace that it works... Smile
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:23 am
By the way, do u know whats the recommended size for boot partition for fedora core 4..
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:25 am
shantanu wrote:
Hey madnani, I stumbled onto the same link...thnx neways for the info and moreover for the added assurace that it works... Smile

I guess "nitin" has been forgotten again ? Wink
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:45 am
oops, my bad....Big Grin
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:36 am
shantanu wrote:
By the way, do u know whats the recommended size for boot partition for fedora core 4..

I have not played with FC4 yet but for FC3 I just used whatever was the recommended partition scheme suggested by anaconda.
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