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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD <-> Linux : newbie's question Date: 25 Sep 1995 06:22:37 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 14 Message-ID: <445hrd$9q9@reason.cdrom.com> References: <441g1l$cs1@sand.cis.ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: sycheng@cis.ufl.edu X-URL: news:441g1l$cs1@sand.cis.ufl.edu sycheng@cis.ufl.edu (Hsiao-Yang Cheng) wrote: > A couple of questions : > > 1) Can FreeBSD use Linux's swap partition as its swap ? If it's an MBR partition, yeah, sure. Just use swapon and the correct slice name, e.g. for disk 0, MBR partition 3: `swapon /dev/sd0s3' > 2) Could FreeBSD mount Linux partitions , and vice versa ? Not yet on the former (but soon), not sure at all about the latter. -- Jordan