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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!hannu From: hannu@voxware.pp.fi (Hannu Savolainen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux and FreeBSD swap share? Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:51:08 GMT Organization: UNIX Sound System Project Lines: 25 Message-ID: <Dxztp8.Cs@voxware.pp.fi> References: <51rlp5$k5k@www.uno.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: voxware.pp.fi golden@cs.uno.edu (Golden G. Richard III) writes: >Anyone have experience with sharing swap partitions between Linux and >FreeBSD? Anything to watch out for? It's possible to access FreeBSD's swap partition from Linux. Linux 2.0.x versions have support for "BSD disklabel" (you will have to enable "UFS filesystem support" too to get it). With the disklabel option enabled the BSD's swap partition is accessible just like ordinary secondary partitions. In my case the FreeBSD swap partition is visible in Linux as /dev/hdb6 (it's on the second HD). To get the swap activated I have the following lines in /etc/tc.d/rc.local (maybe there is a more elegant way to do it): mkswap /dev/hdb6 swapon /dev/hdb6 Best regards, Hannu -- ----------------------------- Hannu Savolainen (hannu@voxware.pp.fi, hannu@4front-tech.com) http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/voxware/hannu.html (my home page) http://www.4Front-Tech.com/oss.html (Open Sound System (OSS))