From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 16 09:23:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA08861 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 09:23:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA08766 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 09:22:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA21765; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 18:21:48 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA08282; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 18:21:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id SAA11299; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 18:09:07 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611161709.SAA11299@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Sharing SWAP between FreeBSD versions To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 18:09:07 +0100 (MET) Cc: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Randall Hopper at "Nov 16, 96 11:11:56 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)