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Polytropon <freebsd <at> edvax.de> writes:

> ... 
> Swap: Can the two Linusi share the same swap partition? And
> furthoermore, could FreeBSD also use that one? Note that the
> different systems are not running at the same time, so it would
> be nonsense to waste disk space for three "dedicated" swap
> partitions when one is sufficient.
> ...

Swap partition in Linux has a signature, which is destroyed by FB, and so it
has to be restored by Linux again.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+FreeBSD-3.html

Linux does suspend-to-disk to swap partition, which makes sharing it
problematic.

jb