From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 28 11:09:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA18746 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 11:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA18739 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 11:09:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0uOTCk-0004KJC; Tue, 28 May 96 11:09 PDT Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 11:09:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby To: Terry Lambert cc: Michael Hancock , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sharing a partition between Solaris & FreeBSD.. In-Reply-To: <199605281744.KAA11401@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. >