Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:05:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Bob K <melange@yip.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here's a simple one Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810271605060.16538-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981026103830.8052z-100000@yip.org>
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On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Bob K wrote: > On my home computer, I dual-boot between Win95b and an oldish (2months) > -current snapshot. Now, under 95, I have a logical drive in an extended > partition (/dev/wd0s9) that's about 70 megs that is dedicated just to swap > space. The question is: If I mount this as swap under FreeBSD, would > this cause problems with win95? (Specifically, I don't know if win95 > would still recognize it as FAT16, and thus not see it at all without a > formatting) Even if swapon would allow you to identify a FAT partition as a swap partition (and I highly doubt it does), the data on the partition would be trashed. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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