From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 0:38:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1AA437B407 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 00:38:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7EB6B6ACE6; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:08:06 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:08:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing a swap partition between Linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010827170806.I65447@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200108270731.f7R7VRZ86236@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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