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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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