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Subject: Re: Newbie: 4.9 / 5.2.1 / 4.10 ??
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Daniela wrote:

>On Friday 07 May 2004 16:25, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
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>>>4)	Can freebsd use a linux swap space?
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>Yes, anything can be used as swap space, but be sure to determine the correct 
>device file, or else you'll overwrite precious data.
>If, for example, you have the Linux swap on the second slice on the first IDE 
>drive, the device file would be: /dev/ad0s2 (at least for 4.9, I think for 
>5.X it's /dev/ad0s2c but I'm not sure).
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This might help:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+FreeBSD.html

It includes a section on sharing swap space.

PWR.