[ltp] X31 - where to hibernate?

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

I don't know if your system is like mine...

I have a T21, working well generally with Libranet (Debian).  It
Suspends and Hibernates more or less reliably (enough Suspends and the
framebuffer console display goes bad, but I haven't chased it down yet).

Hibernate is a BIOS function on this machine, and it requires a FAT
filesystem to hibernate to.  Mine is FAT32, and I don't remember if
that's a requirement, or if just FAT will do.  But it won't hibernate to
ext? or any other standard Linux filesystems that I know of.

I've noted vague references to people using the same partition for both
swap and hibernate.  In the distant past, I've used a scheme that shared
the swap partition between Linux and Windows.  When activating it for
Windows, it was only necessary to copy in an image that overwrote the
beginning of the partition to be enough to fool Windows into using it -
I don't remember if it was formatted FAT completely.  Perhaps zeroing
the partition might be enough?

On the Linux on Laptops site, there is a link to a project that allows
systems that don't hibernate to hibernate anyway, handled by Linux.  I
don't need it and haven't looked into it, so have no comment beyond
that.

Regards,
Bret

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 08:58, Toens Bueker wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> probably you'll remember, that my X31 has a ntfs partition
> with XP and shall get an additional Linux installation.
> 
> I understand, that resizing the ntfs partition with
> ntfsresize and qtparted should not be a problem
> (especially not for the hidden parts, which are needed to
> restore XP) as long the hidden partition(s) are not
> visible. 
> 
> Now the second question: how do I have to partition the
> new "Linux-area", if I want to use hibernation?
> 
> Where does XP hibernate to at the moment? Do I need a
> special hibernation partition for Linux? Would have been
> nice, if Linux and XP could have shared their hibernation
> areas ...
> 
> by
> Töns
> -- 
> There is no safe distance.