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From: allred@ut-emx.UUCP (Kevin L. Allred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 swap file note
Summary: Can you make a swap partition?
Message-ID: <31502@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 90 21:30:02 GMT
References: <25913@cc.usu.edu>
Organization: Department of Chemical Engineering
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In article <25913@cc.usu.edu>, JRD@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik) writes:
> 
> 	Has anyone else noticed that the large swap file created by Windows
> 3.0 installation is a (large) fraction of the contiguous free space on drive
> C, but that it can be changed? I created a contiguous file on another drive,
> named it the same as the original hidden swap file and deleted the original.
> Windows continued to work. That also means one can create a swap file of
> any desired size by manual means (programming, copy with concatenation,
> subtrafuge with Norton's Utilities on an old unneeded file, etc).

Has any one tried to make a separate partition for just the swap file?
If you put it right after the C: partition the head wouldn't have to
move far to find it, and it never would get fragmented or possibly
damaged by other files.  This would of course require a complete
backup and new trip through FDISK, but I wonder if it wouldn't be
worth the trouble to isolate the swaping file.


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	Kevin Allred
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