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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.th-darmstadt.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.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: 26 Sep 1995 22:03:50 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <449prm$h1r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <441g1l$cs1@sand.cis.ufl.edu> <445hrd$9q9@reason.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> 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' Linux does exclusively swap on FDISK partitions (and i think that's what you mean -- it could also be an extended partition, the slice code should handle this). Of course, as long as it's not swapping on a file... but that's another point. Naaah, Jordan, it's not that easy though. You still need to convince both systems that it's a valid swap area from their respective view. For Linux, makeswapfile (sp?) does this, for FreeBSD, it's disklabel(8). See my other reply. -- 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. ;-)