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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