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Date:      Tue, 28 May 1996 12:10:51 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Sharing a partition between Solaris & FreeBSD..
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.93.960528120145.3186A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.92.960527185439.476A-100000@hamby1>

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On Mon, 27 May 1996, Jake Hamby wrote:

> > > 3) Shared FDISK partition for swap space (32MB>
> >
> > I haven't tried this yet, but you might have problems with this.
> >
> > -mh
> 
> Didn't have any problems when I tried it on a Zip disk.  FreeBSD accepts
> any partition (not just those ending with b) for swapon, and Solaris
> accepts any partition or swapfile with swap -a.  This is unlike Linux,
> which accepts swap partitions to have special magic numbers in them, I
> should note.

I thought Solaris used magic numbers too for its swap partitions. (82?)

-mh




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