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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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