Laptop installation

[Preston Kutzner]

On Apr 20, 2009, at 6:29 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:

> Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:56 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> The article that Frans mentioned was quite explicit. It even
>> mentioned the extra software I recalled.
>
> Thanks to Frans for the link. I'll probably need it when we'll install
> Jaunty on the Vista machine.
>
>> I went to the Vista Computer Management / Disk Management.
>> Disk properties are: Capacity 111 GB; Used 73.5 GB; Free 38.2 GB
>> Disk shrink revealed 114472 mb on HD, but 0 mb available for
>> shrinkage. I guess the swap file is there. At any rate, Im stopped.
>>
>> Any ideas? I could probably move some stuff elsewhere to free up
>> space, but would it make any difference if an elastic (and invisible)
>> swap file is there?
>
> I don't know about Vista but for XP there is an option to use no swap
> file at all. If that option exists for Vista as well, you can select  
> it
> at least for the time of shrinking the partition.

It is still possible to run Vista without a paging file (swap file).   
Although, I would recommend against disabling it (as I recommend  
against running a Linux system without a swap partition).  Yes you  
might make it your whole computing experience on Linux without your  
system ever needing to page-out to swap.  However, if you don't have  
swap space and you run out of physical memory space, you're SOL.   
Windows tends to be more swap-heavy in general anyhow, so I would  
definitely recommend keeping some swap space available for it.  You  
can limit the paging file size in the same dialog you use to disable  
it.  I would recommend limiting the size over disabling it altogether.

>
> Another option might be the use of JkDefrag which was mentioned here:
>
> <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-April/ 
> 180090.html>
> <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-April/ 
> 180095.html>
>
>
> Nils
>
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