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# Linux Swap Space Mini-HOWTO

## Rahul Sundaram rahulsundaram@yahoo.co.in

v1.6, 2002-12-27

This Linux Mini-HOWTO describes how to share your Linux swap partition with Windows.

## 1. Introduction

## 2. What you need

## 3. Recent Changes and versions

## 4. Administrative

- 4.1 Copyright
- 4.2 Disclaimer

## 5. Before you begin

## 6. The Procedure

- 6.1 Turn off swapping and create a DOS partition
- 6.2 Tell Windows the location of the new swap file
- 6.3 Back up the Total Special Sectors
- 6.4 Modify the initialization and shutdown scripts to handle our new configuration
- 6.5 Reenable swapping

## 7. A couple of notes

## 8. What are we exactly doing ?

## 9. The swapinit.sh script

## 10. The swaphalt.sh script

## 11. The msinfo.sh script

## 12. The original msinfo file

## 13. Acknowledgements, feedback and dedication

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