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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!fub46.fddi1.fu-berlin.DE!not-for-mail From: gusw@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Gunther Schadow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can Linux and FreeBSD share a swap partition? Date: 18 Feb 1997 13:54:55 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5eccbf$9dn@fu-berlin.de> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970212062214.2362A-100000@hafnium.nkbj.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: fub46.fddi1.fu-berlin.de (160.45.1.46) X-Access: 16 17 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35802 Yes, of course. I even had a swap partition formatted for dos from an AUTOEXEC.BAT file. How is it done? if you use slices, i.e. fdisk partitions, then you configure three of them, wd0s1 for FreeBSD, wd0s2 for Linux and wd0s3 for the common swap. Just edit your /etc/fstab file (don't know the Linux equivalent) like this: wd0s1a / ufs wd0s1e /usr ufs wd0s3 none swab # wd0s2a /linux/ linuxfs (does it exist?) # wd0s2e /linux/usr linuxfs (does it exist?) and you are ready to go! regards -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow------------------Windsteiner Weg 54a, Berlin 14165, FR. Germany Dept. of Anaesthesia, Benjamin Franklin University Hospital, Berlin. gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de | http://userpage.fu-berlin/~gusw ----------------------------------------#include <usual/disclaimer>------------