Re: How to share paging file between NetBsd and Windows 7?

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Apr 5,  5:52pm, ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost (Ottavio Caruso) 
wrote:
-- Subject: Re: How to share paging file between NetBsd and Windows 7?

| So I have now installed fuse-ntfs-3g, mounted the win partition rw
| with uid=0, then:
| 
| -bash-4.2# swapctl -a /mnt/win7/pagefile.sys
| swapctl: WARNING: /mnt/win7/pagefile.sys is readable by the world
| swapctl: WARNING: /mnt/win7/pagefile.sys is writable by the world
| 
| Still complaining, however:
| 
| -bash-4.2# swapctl -s
| total: 2054448 blocks allocated = 0 blocks used, 2054448 blocks available
| 
| and:
| 
| -bash-4.2# cat /proc/meminfo
|         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers: cached:
| Mem:  2028154880 731725824 1296429056        0 154378240 584462336
| Swap: 2103754752        0 2103754752
| MemTotal:   1980620 kB
| MemFree:    1266044 kB
| MemShared:        0 kB
| Buffers:     150760 kB
| Cached:      570764 kB
| SwapTotal:  2054448 kB
| SwapFree:   2054448 kB
| 
| Does it mean the swap file is actually working?

Yes, but it is not used since there is a lot of memory left.

christos