From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 05:29:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A9C16A4DA for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 05:29:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C648043D45 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 05:29:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.7/8.13.7/Debian-2) with ESMTP id k855TGGN008880 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:29:18 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k855Tbvh083182; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:29:37 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id k855TSxK083181; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:29:28 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:29:28 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Bill-S Message-ID: <20060905052928.GG81402@gothmog.pc> References: <20060903223518.f92a2112.dick@nagual.nl> <20060904050337.D1556@www.pukruppa.net> <5FC874DF-8811-4012-81A0-4B9F22BF399B@shire.net> <20060904145729.GA7110@lothlorien.nagual.nl> <44FC4229.5050703@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.816, required 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL -0.22, BAYES_00 -2.60, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: solaris X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:29:39 -0000 On 2006-09-04 08:41, Bill-S wrote: >At Mon, 4 Sep 2006 it looks like Matthew Seaman composed: >> Back in the Solaris 8 days, the trick was to use fdisk to create a primary >> partition and mark it as type 'Linux Swap' after which Solaris would happily >> recognise it as a location to install into. >> >> Quite how it happened that Solaris uses the same partition type as Linux >> swap is shrouded in the mists of time. > > (giggle) > > If I recall correctly, there was some hacking to do too if you were > dual-booting Solaris and Linux on the same disk for Solaris would > try on use your whole Linux filesystem as its own swap location. Wasn't it the other way around (i.e. Linux assuming that anything marked as "Linux swap", is fine for a swap partition, happily proceeding to trash your Solaris filesystems?). Still sounds like tons of fun though :)