Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:46:23 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, adrian@FreeBSD.org, alfred@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [patch] allow crash dumps to Linux swap partitions Message-ID: <4F1140DF.5070809@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201201100017.q0A0HItk037943@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <201201100017.q0A0HItk037943@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On 01/09/2012 16:17, Don Lewis wrote: > Looks like this is safe to do. There is some code in swaponsomething() > to avoid the first two page-size blocks of the swap file to avoid > overwriting the BSD label if the swap partition starts at sector zero of > a BSD partition. Confirmed. I switched my BSD swap partitions to the same one my linux install is using, and I've booted back and forth several times now. Doug -- You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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