Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...
--- Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> 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
Does it use "freespace" on the drive, or will it destroy data from the
windows partition?
Shawn
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