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Date:      Tue, 28 May 1996 11:09:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Sharing a partition between Solaris & FreeBSD..
Message-ID:  <Pine.AUX.3.91.960528110756.18513E-100000@covina.lightside.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605281744.KAA11401@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Tue, 28 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > 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.

I think you're right, Terry, _if_ you are using Solaris VTOC slices, e.g. 
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1.  I'm using raw FDISK partitions, e.g. 
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0p1 which seems to bypass any magic number issues in both OS's.

> 					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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