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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!recepsen.aa.msen.com!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD <-> Linux : newbie's question Date: 24 Sep 1995 23:21:32 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <444llc$3vr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <441g1l$cs1@sand.cis.ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hsiao-Yang Cheng <sycheng@cis.ufl.edu> wrote: > 1) Can FreeBSD use Linux's swap partition as its swap ? Yes, but not directly. I've just killed a Linux/FreeBSD combo on my notebook that did it. You need to tweak your rc files to perform the following: when Linux comes up: o run fdisk and mark the partition in question as "Linux swap" o run makeswap on it in FreeBSD: o prepare an entry in /etc/disktab that contains just that swap slice (partition "c" covering the entire slice, starting at [relative] offset 0, partition "b" identical to it, the actual swap space) when FreeBSD comes up: o run fdisk on it and mark it as FreeBSD slice (this will only work correctly if the boot slice is prior to the swap slice in the FDISK table) o disklabel -r -w wd<X>s<X> <disktab-name> o the you're ready for swapon > 2) Could FreeBSD mount Linux partitions , and vice versa ? Not yet, but John Dyson is working on ext2fs integration. I don't think anybody is working on ufs support for Linux. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)