Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 06:48:14 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux shared installation Message-ID: <20140121064815.78f3a357.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bg%2BBviS0B1%2B%2BaYXbxH51w2d9CPWnwuP54BNkrt_4X4YK-pWsg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140121060405.396586d4.freebsd@edvax.de> <CA%2Bg%2BBviS0B1%2B%2BaYXbxH51w2d9CPWnwuP54BNkrt_4X4YK-pWsg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:14:31 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > > Swap: Can the two Linusi share the same swap partition? And > > I do something of the sort on machines in my teaching lab. > > I have installed one Ubuntu on one partition, and I have another empty > partition where students can install their own Ubuntu (for class > project) and they both use one same (extended) partition. > > I see no reason why FreeBSD could not use it too, swap partition is > supposed to be empty when the system boots, so any data/formatting > done by another OS will be over written. That was my initial assumption too. Thanks for confirming, I will definitely try that. The only thing I've been wondering about: The ID would have to be set to 82 "Linux swap" (and the Linux partitions theirselves of course 83 "Linux native partition"), will FreeBSD complain when I define that partition, e. g. /dev/ada0s2, as swap, having the "wrong" type ID? On the other hand, a typical FreeBSD swap at /dev/ada0s1b would have no partition ID at all... so I assume that won't be a problem. > One a side note, should you have 35GB of /home in FreeBSD partition of > instead increase the size of your common space? I thought about that, but decided against it. The common data partition will be more of an "exchange point" because I will spend most of my time in FreeBSD, and I prefer data to be under the control of UFS (because I just trust this more than the various Linux file systems), that's why FreeBSD's /home is where the majority of data will be. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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