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From: hlu@retro.lanl.gov (Henry Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux and FreeBSD swap share?
Date: 9 Oct 1996 21:28:45 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: "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. ;-)

Could You please post your solution here. I missed the previous post.

Another suggestion : this can be a interesting HOWTO. 

Henry H Lu.
honglu@rt66.com