From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 28 11:08:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA18643 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 11:08:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA18610 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 11:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id KAA06888 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 10:47:33 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA11401; Tue, 28 May 1996 10:44:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605281744.KAA11401@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Sharing a partition between Solaris & FreeBSD.. To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:44:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Hancock" at May 28, 96 12:10:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > 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.