Re: [SLUG] Re: swap drive, partition or no?

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sat Apr 06 2002 - 23:56:36 EST


On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:34:30PM -0500, Bob Stia wrote:

>
> Re: [SLUG] swap drive, partition or no?
> From: Bob Stia <rnr@sanctum.com>
> To: slug@nks.net
> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:00:15 -0500
>
>
> On Thursday 04 April 2002 11:13 pm, you wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 April 2002 21:09, you wrote:
>
> .......<snip.... awhole buncha stuff>.......
> >
> > My desktop machine at any given time have about four O/S's. I share
> > the swap partition between the different Linux versions.
>
>
> Question:  Anything special have to be done to share swap space
> between OS's ?  Or just put it there and the OS will find it? e.g.
> primary to logical ?
>

As long as the OSes are Linux, just put a notation in the fstab file of
each one, so that it knows _that_ is its swap partition.

Paul



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