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From: Christopher JS Vance <vance@usq.edu.au>
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I am using Stable as my primary OS, but occasionally need to boot 
into Linux (RH5.0) because my students use it, or into MS-* because 
it's a bad habit I've acquired.

My disk is
	wd0s1 MS-*
	wd0s2 Linux swap
	wd0s3 FreeBSD
	wd0s4 Linux

I want to use the Linux swap partition from FreeBSD, preferably 
without fiddling the partition table.  How?

Somebody mentioned vn somewhere, but /dev/wd0s2 isn't a regular file.

I understand Linux likes to see its label on the partition and I'll need to have it (Linux) put the label back when booting after FBSD is done.

-- Christopher


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