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Date:      Sat, 16 Nov 1996 18:09:07 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
Subject:   Re: Sharing SWAP between FreeBSD versions
Message-ID:  <199611161709.SAA11299@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961116111156.rhh@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Nov 16, 96 11:11:56 am"

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As Randall Hopper wrote:

>       I'm fixing to repartition my disks and wondering if I can share my
> 32M swap between any two FreeBSD versions I might have installed at the
> same time.  Anybody know?

You gotta put it into a slice of its own.  You'll run into more
problems with booting different FreeBSD versions however.

>       A related questions is, is swap a "raw" partition in the sense that
> FreeBSD doesn't rely on it having any structure to use it?

The slice needs a disklabel, and a `b' partition therein.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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