Pupsave location & sharing Windows swap

[houndstooth]

Perhaps this is common knowledge not understood through lack of experience:

Q1: If boot details are contained in a pupsave, how does Puppy find a pupsave out of its default location?

I normally have individual pups in 2nd level GRUB2 sub-directories, eg., /mnt/sdc1/xenialpup64-7.5-uefi/[Puppy files]. The pupsaves always go in those directories, working. What happens when they're placed elsewhere by the creation tool upon logout?

This machine has a 3 GB pagefile.sys Windows swap file in C:\. Puppy will never reside there, in next level sub-directories or a different partition.

Q2: Is it possible & safe to use Windows swap for Puppy? If so, how do we specify a different directory from the pupsave?

Puppy Wikka:

...when using a pup_save file, Puppy will use these files for swap on boot if in same directory as the pup_save file : WIN386.SWP, PAGEFILE.SYS, pup.swp and, with Puppy 2.01, pupswap.swp.

forum swap topics:

What is a Swap File?
https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=3933
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=37449
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=28503
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=65554

[Flash]

I think it should be safe for Puppy to use Windows' swap memory, but only if Windows is shut down completely, not hibernating.

[williwaw]

What happens when they're placed elsewhere by the creation tool upon logout?

what happened when you tried it?

Specifying psave=<partition> can be quite useful in directing all save layers to a different partition.
e.g. If your puppies reside on an ntfs partition,
then you can get yourself a savefolder by creating a Linux partition on a usb stick or hd,
and then specifying a psave=<the uuid of the Linux partition> boot parameter.
If you forget to plug in the appropriate device, Puppy will simply do a first boot,
no harm done, just insert the appropriate usb device and reboot.

viewtopic.php?t=5484

[houndstooth]

@williwaw I have never used the boot parameter, will try it, although it seems like swap demands putting pupsaves in the Windows boot directory which is less than ideal.