Implementation of Addional Swap & Temp area via XYZ for
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:35 am
Hello,
Here is a suggestion for those who may be using the Gentoox on top of the FatX file system.
presently as a example some of us may be using E and F to contain the root file system files for our Linux installation. Our Swap files are located here also.
We have additional parts of the drive under FATX which are used to Cache different types of information such as Drive Letters X Y and Z
each drive letter in these partitions can contain around 700 Megs of data which is around 2 gigs combined.
These areas are not being utilized at the moment to my knowledge other than by other microsoft applications for the purpose of caching during normal operation of various dvd media.
Our Swap file can be moved to this area I think, and be refreshed each time the user boots the operating system. This should ensure a fresh unfragmented Swap file, and possibily free up some space on E or F
Another possibility is to mount the area for temporary usage during system operations, such as archiving similar to a tempory working folder but again having the option to be cleared on rebooting.
the space is there so we may as well use it.
Cheers!
Kenneth J. Murray
Newfoundland
Canada
Here is a suggestion for those who may be using the Gentoox on top of the FatX file system.
presently as a example some of us may be using E and F to contain the root file system files for our Linux installation. Our Swap files are located here also.
We have additional parts of the drive under FATX which are used to Cache different types of information such as Drive Letters X Y and Z
each drive letter in these partitions can contain around 700 Megs of data which is around 2 gigs combined.
These areas are not being utilized at the moment to my knowledge other than by other microsoft applications for the purpose of caching during normal operation of various dvd media.
Our Swap file can be moved to this area I think, and be refreshed each time the user boots the operating system. This should ensure a fresh unfragmented Swap file, and possibily free up some space on E or F
Another possibility is to mount the area for temporary usage during system operations, such as archiving similar to a tempory working folder but again having the option to be cleared on rebooting.
the space is there so we may as well use it.
Cheers!
Kenneth J. Murray
Newfoundland
Canada