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Stefan Güls wrote:
>
> I had the idea of using the win386.swp file (which can't be 
> used by windows when running BasicLinux for obvious reasons) 
> as a swapfile for BL.  First I configured windows to use a 
> suitable minimum swapfile size, which ain't a bad idea anyway 
> for fragmentation reasons. I added the partition containing 
> the win386.swp to /etc/fstab  
> /dev/hda[win-partition]  /hd  vfat   rw,auto,  ...

/dev/hda1  /hd   vfat  default  0  0

> and put the lines 
> mkswap /hd/win386.swp
> swapon /hd/win386.swp

You should have a sync between the mkswap and swapon.
Also, you should probably use dd to zero /hd/win386.swp 
before doing mkswap.
 
> swapon -a' didn't work... why?

AFAIK that only works for swap partitions, not swap files.

> Is there anybody seeing implicit dangers in doing so? 

Not from the Linux side (assuming you zero the file before
mkswap).  But I don't know what Windows will do when it finds 
that Linux has over-written its swap file.  

> I can tell that windows doesn't care what happened to 
> its  swapfile after BL ran

OK, then no problem.

Cheers,
Steven