[H-GEN] Re: [H-CHAT] newbie query

[Martin Pool]

> Delivered-To: mbp-humbug at pharos.com.au
> Delivered-To: chat-outgoing at zerlargal.humbug.org.au
> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:45:52 +1000 (EST)
> From: David Jericho <davidj at meesha.humbug.org.au>

> In that case, to save chopping that 20-30 MB off the end of the
> drive, and you are willing to RTFM, you will probably want to look
> at the HOWTO on sharing a swap file between Windows and Linux. You
> could get away with running the swap file over a device loopback and
> then just gzipping it up when you shutdown.

Why not just delete it and recreate it when you restart.  Surely it's
better to write out a few kb of bitmap headers than to save 30-100MB
of useless data?

-- 
Martin Pool <m.pool at pharos.com.au>
Pharos Business Solutions
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