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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!newsfeed.sunet.se!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!ferret.ocunix.on.ca!resurr ect From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux and FreeBSD swap share? Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:15:37 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <R.3244BD69.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <51rlp5$k5k@www.uno.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 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: "Golden G. Richard III" <golden@cs.uno.edu> Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. Golden G. Richard III wrote: > > Anyone have experience with sharing swap partitions between Linux and > FreeBSD? Anything to watch out for? As Hannu has already pointed out, this is easy to do from Linux. To share a Linux swap device from FreeBSD is similarly easy - simply do a swapon using the "slice" number of the partition corresponding to the Linux swap partition. If you're using a swap file under an ext2fs partition instead and you're running 2.2, then you can also simply mount the ext2fs partition and use vnconfig(1) to configure the swap file as a FreeBSD swap file. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project