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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:42:29 -0500
From:      CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net>
To:        "Ismael ...." <ismaelpsp@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installing in a ext3 partition?
Message-ID:  <48A1D995.4000602@cyberleo.net>
In-Reply-To: <BLU103-W37DBEC88701CCDB5306FBCA3710@phx.gbl>
References:  <BLU103-W37DBEC88701CCDB5306FBCA3710@phx.gbl>

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Ismael .... wrote:
> Can freebsd make use of a linux-swap as swap space?

FreeBSD doesn't need to format swap before use, and seems perfectly 
content using any contiguous span of blocks as swap space -- even ones 
containing filesystems (oops!).

Afterwards, you will need to re-mkswap the partition before Linux will 
be able to use it, though.

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