Swap size for 3.5GB RAM?

I wonder what size of a separate partition should I prepare for Vista Home
Premium 32bit? Physical Ram is 4GB, for 32bit OS - 3.5GB.
Currently I have 2.92GB partition for swap, on secondary HDD (for a system
other than Vista). Shold I allocate more?
However I have some date on other partitions which I would reluctantly move.
Has Vista a feature to resize non-system NTFS and FAT32 partitions without
loosing
data?

Should it matter, the only memory-occuping programs I am going to use are
for virtualization and some games, however I don't suppose the programs will
use
more that physical RAM. (In which case - can I work without swap?)

Mark

H wrote:

> Buy yourself Partition Magic !

What for? Any resize may be done using free or trial tools which are more
reliable than PM. My favorite partitioning tool is BootIt.

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Arkadiusz 'Black Fox' Artyszuk

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:45:05 +0100, Arkadiusz 'Black Fox' Artyszuk <>
wrote:

>H wrote:
>
>> Buy yourself Partition Magic !
>
>What for? Any resize may be done using free or trial tools which are more
>reliable than PM. My favorite partitioning tool is BootIt.

Will BootIt *move* partitions?

My system had C as system ptn, with way more unused space than I planned to leave for future
Windows wastage, so I decreased its size and created an extended ptn, fully used by a logical
ptn for my own use, Windows to keep its hands off. But at that moment, forced minimum size
for C was a lot larger than I felt was necessary, and since reinstallation events another big
piece of land became available. Problem: the Windows disk manager won't even contemplate
moving the extended ptn backwards on the physical disk to occupy the new unallocated space.
Partition Magic (8, iirc) won't touch the Vista NTFS partitions, and in fact won't even open in
their presence (again, iirc.) I've d/l'd a couple of disk managers hat specificlly claim to
support Vista, but they're trials of commercial offerings, with almost all functionality
virtualized in the trial version, so you can look at what you want done, but you can't touch
it.

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