Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:42:14 +0700 From: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux shared installation Message-ID: <CA%2Bg%2BBvgmPh%2BveiSS%2B1P2Vkd22_4hOa-jhfq1YjE6jDNufm-sdQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140121064815.78f3a357.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20140121060405.396586d4.freebsd@edvax.de> <CA%2Bg%2BBviS0B1%2B%2BaYXbxH51w2d9CPWnwuP54BNkrt_4X4YK-pWsg@mail.gmail.com> <20140121064815.78f3a357.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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. I have no machine with both FreeBSD and Linux, so I cannot try. >> 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. It would be worth trying whether Linux can see/mount your FreeBSD home partition (Linux supposedly knows the ufs file system), that way you may not even need the common data partition. Bests, Olivier > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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