Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> [2002-10-24 10:49:10 +0930]:
>
> > How can a swap partition be read-only?  How can a disk be used as swap
> > without overwriting (probably FAT32) partitions on the disk?
>
>
> It would only mount a swap partition if the type marked was linux
> swap previously.  Otherwise it won't use it.
>
> Bob

But in the case of low RAM, if a Linux partition is not available, 
Knoppix uses the Windows partition and creates a swap file (not a swap 
partition).

Kent