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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux and FreeBSD swap share? Date: 28 Sep 1996 17:53:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <52jomt$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <51rlp5$k5k@www.uno.edu> <R.3244BD69.2781E494@freebsd.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > 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. No, it needs to get a BSD disklabel (with a `b' partition) before. However, i've once proven that this can be done from inside the /etc/rc scripts. The shared version using Linux' UFS support, or a `vn' device has certainly more merit. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)