Partitioning Question

[n25]

How would you partition a drive in such a way that the swapfile would reside on its own local drive separated from the primary partition where the OS usually resides?

 

[tbiller]

What is the OS?

If it's XP/2K and there's enough raw disk then just use Disk Admin to create a new partition and then set the swapfile to use that.

Call it Drive S perhaps? (it doesn't matter) Usual swapfile size rules apply so make sure the new partition is at least 2x the size of the local RAM.

I have a old 5Gb disk in my primary PC as the primary slave and all it does is hold the swapfile. But then I have a gig of RAM so I don't notice the system swapping out to disk too often.

Tim

 

[n25]

Thanks for the tip!

Another question: could you dump several OS's in drive C: separated just by their directories in a multi-boot setup (in effect, making C: the OS drive)?

 

[wolluf]

You could - but its NOT a good idea (i presume you mean versions of windows). Should be on separate partitions, otherwise you get 'overlap' where they use the same areas.

Have you considered vmware or MS virtual PC?