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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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