On Thu, 28 October, 2004 1:23 pm, Brian Bobowski said: > Simon Burke wrote: > >> I know duel booting is really easy to setup these days, but just a >> thought, I've never duel booted with two *nix OS's so i do not know >> this. >> >> Is it possible to use a single swap partition for multiple distro's on >> one machine? >> >> If so would it impair stability or stuff? And would it be possible to >> do so with BSD and linux? >> >> Im just curious. All my Ix86 dekstops have atleast 160gb HDD space >> (over 1.5Tb in total at present), so i may give it a try later on >> tonight. >> >> >> > I don't THINK it'd work between FreeBSD and Linux, but I could be > mistaken.
As I recall, it /is/ possible, but you have to be careful while setting up the OSen that will share the swap, for the reasons Brian gives below. > I'm basing this thought on the fact that every distro of Linux I've > installed puts its different mount points on a different partition; > FreeBSD has several partitions(not the same kind) on the same > slice(FreeBSD's equivalent to a partition). As long as you put the swap device on a (BSD) slice of its own, you can instruct Linux to look at that (DOS) partition and use it as swap. Just don't try and make BSD use a Linux swap device that lives in a DOS-extended partition. That way madness lies. To say nothing of data loss... <caveat> It is a while since I tried this, and my recollection may be anything from hazy to utterly wrong. The usual disclaimers apply, blah blah blah! Basically, don't try this on a machine where you have data you care about until you've tried it on a virgin disk, or at least a disk containing data you don't mind losing. Backup backup backup. Go on, make it your mantra! ;-) </caveat> HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
