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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
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Subject: Re: Sharing a partition between Solaris & FreeBSD..
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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