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Date:      Tue, 28 May 1996 10:44:53 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock)
Cc:        jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sharing a partition between Solaris & FreeBSD..
Message-ID:  <199605281744.KAA11401@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.93.960528120145.3186A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> from "Michael Hancock" at May 28, 96 12:10:51 pm

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> > > > 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?)

I thought they just required a string in the disklabel of "swap", like
NetBSD does.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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