From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 14:57:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA18247 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:57:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA18242 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA05212; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:50:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604292150.OAA05212@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Using a Linix swap area for FreeBSD? To: Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com (Harlan Stenn) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:50:03 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20993.830767432@mumps.pfcs.com> from "Harlan Stenn" at Apr 29, 96 04:43:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is there a way (easy?) to have FreeBSD recognize and use a Linix swap > area as FreeBSD swap space? Use the raw device for the partition. It should work. man swapon Linux expects swap to be in a particular format. Like using the Windows 3.1 swap file, you will have to make Linux reset the swap area after reboot to make it usable again for Linux. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.