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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news-peer.gsl.net!jupiter.nic.dtag.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!gtnduss1.du.gtn.com!www.punkt.de!not-for-mail From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sharing swap between FreeBSD and Linux, not enough partitions Date: 2 Jun 1997 16:47:51 GMT Organization: WEB Internet Services Lines: 30 Message-ID: <01bc6f74$d1700440$f3e94dc2@hugo09.ticsoft.de> References: <3392ED3D.E47@appliedreasoning.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hugo09.ticsoft.de X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42057 Joseph Mack <mack@appliedreasoning.com> wrote in <3392ED3D.E47@appliedreasoning.com>... > I have a spare partition on my Linux disk on which I would > like to put FreeBSD. Linux has 3 partitions (/, /usr and swap) > and only allows 4 partitions. FreeBSD needs 2 partitions > (/ and swap). Is there any easy way of using the Linux > swap partition for FreeBSD when I boot FreeBSD (besides > manually changing the partition type with fdisk before > I reboot). Is there any other way around the partition > problem? As for the 4 partition limit: FreeBSD doesn't use one DOS/FDISK-partition per filesystem as Linux does. It subdivides one single DOS/FDISK-partition (which the FreeBSD folks chose to call "slices") further into the regular filesystems /, /usr, /var, etc. (which the FreeBSD folks chose to call "partitions" - this is consistent with BSD but somewhat confusing, since the SysVR4 crowd did it the other way round. ;-) So you don't have a problem with that. Using the FreeBSD installation floppy, create a single primary FreeBSD partition, then go to the label editor and call "Auto defaults for all" once to get a feeling for the setup. Tweak your filesystem sizes as necessary. As for the wasted space (2 swap areas): dunno. Patrick