Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 12:10:51 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sharing a partition between Solaris & FreeBSD.. Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.93.960528120145.3186A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.92.960527185439.476A-100000@hamby1>
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On Mon, 27 May 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > > > 3) Shared FDISK partition for swap space (32MB> > > > > I haven't tried this yet, but you might have problems with this. > > > > -mh > > Didn't have any problems when I tried it on a Zip disk. FreeBSD accepts > any partition (not just those ending with b) for swapon, and Solaris > accepts any partition or swapfile with swap -a. This is unlike Linux, > which accepts swap partitions to have special magic numbers in them, I > should note. I thought Solaris used magic numbers too for its swap partitions. (82?) -mh
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