Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:16:45 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, adrian@FreeBSD.org, alfred@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [patch] allow crash dumps to Linux swap partitions Message-ID: <4F0AB07D.1060208@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201201090911.q099B605025369@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <201201090911.q099B605025369@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On 01/09/2012 01:11, Don Lewis wrote: > On 9 Jan, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> .. doesn't linux swap have some metadata somewhere? > > Darned if I know, but it doesn't seem to care about FreeBSD swap data > overwriting its swap partition. Have you had to do anything special for linux boot? I multi-boot myself and would love to be able to save space on my laptop by only having one universal swap partition. I started to look at doing this but found various docs that said don't unless you are able to recreate the metadata that Adrian referenced above. Doug -- You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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