RE: parted moving the swap file when resizing?

[Lim . KeanHeng]

Hi,

Thank for your information.
The pagefile.sys can be easily recreate, it not an issue.

What I found is that the parted is so flexible that sometimes we could
possible do something wrong with it.

My last experience is to resize my Windows200 FAT32 partition and create a
boot partition for linux. 

Originally, (the start end just for illustration purpose)
Minor
1          0.031 - 10000   FAT    lba, A
2          10000 - 20000   FAT            ; extend partition

become
1          52 - 10000      FAT   lba, A
2        10000 - 20000     FAT           ; extend partition
3          0.031 - 51.999  ext2

Windows 2000 seem to be confused. Even though no error message saying
partition having problem, the Windows 2000 can not run properly. It's
crawling at the startup phase and keep shutdown the machine before get to
the user desktop.

Could it possible to sort and the minor in partition table, so that the
primary partition start-end in acending order?

Thanks

Regards,
KeanHeng




-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Clausen [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2001 10:09
To: Kean Heng Lim, MC-OP-MIT-CS-BIS-BIL
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: parted moving the swap file when resizing?


address@hidden wrote:
> I have resize my Windows 2000 file system (using FAT32) with parted and I
> have problem trying to restart the OS again. The system complains the
> Virtual Memory problem and I guess the pagefile.sys has been modified
since
> that.
> 
> It's is possible that parted has moved part of my pagefile.sys and cause
it
> to be non-continous on the disk?

Yes.  There is really nothing we can do about this :/
(long story...)

I don't have Windows 2000.  Does Windows 2000 have an option
to turn the swap file off?  Can it recover from the fragmented
swapfile, or does it cause big problems?

If so, then I can at least add information in the documentation...

Thanks!
Andrew Clausen