Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:08:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing a swap partition between Linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010827170806.I65447@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200108270731.f7R7VRZ86236@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:31:27AM %2B0200 References: <200108270731.f7R7VRZ86236@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On Monday, 27 August 2001 at 9:31:27 +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > Is it possible to let FreeBSD use a Linux swap partition. Idea is > obvious: Sharing disk and partition resources in mixed OS setups. Currently swapon(8) refuses to swap to anything which is not a FreeBSD swap partition. Linux is not so fussy, so it seems the solution is to change the Linux swap partition type to a FreeBSD slice and create a single FreeBSD swap partition within the slice. This works fine for FreeBSD, of course; the only possible problem I can see is that Linux will overwrite the partition info. I'd be interested if anybody can confirm or deny this. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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