From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 15:41: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from node11a94.a2000.nl (node11a94.a2000.nl [24.132.26.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A72DE14BDE for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:41:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl) Received: (qmail 8489 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2000 23:40:34 -0000 Received: from node11a94.a2000.nl (24.132.26.148) by node11a94.a2000.nl with SMTP; 18 Jan 2000 23:40:34 -0000 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:40:33 +0100 (CET) From: Ronald Klop To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: share swapdisk with win95 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I tried the following with succes. Disk wd1 is a dos formatted disk with only my win95 swapfile on it. I used 'swapon wd1' to make it a FreeBSD swap device. This works ok. When I reboot to windows it doesn't complain and uses my wd1 as swap. The rootdirectory has a lot of illegal filenames in it, but also a valid swapfile and it looks like everything is oke. Is this going to work for always? Is it this simple to share the disk? Or wil it be better to write some valid sectors for the fat and rootdir. when I shutdown FreeBSD. If yes, does this always work, because you cannot stop FreeBSD using the swap. I hope somebody can explain these to me, Ronald. -- Ronald Klop http://node11a94.a2000.nl/~ronald/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message