Richard Adams wrote:
>
> On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, David Aikema wrote about, Shared Swap:
> > Can two different linux distros share a single swap partition?
>
> Yes, swap is part of the linux system and not distribution indipendant
s/indipendant/dependant/
If you use 2.0 kernels and 2.2 kernels, make sure you use a version-0
swap partition (mkswap -v0) and make it not bigger than 128M.[1] See man
mkswap for details.
Marc
[1] of course, you can adjust your boot scripts to mkswap {-v0,-v1}
depending on the kernel version (uname -r) at each boot then.
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