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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD <-> Linux : newbie's question
Date: 25 Sep 1995 06:22:37 GMT
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sycheng@cis.ufl.edu (Hsiao-Yang Cheng) wrote:
>    A couple of questions :
>
>    1) Can FreeBSD use Linux's swap partition as its swap ?

If it's an MBR partition, yeah, sure.  Just use swapon and the correct slice
name, e.g. for disk 0, MBR partition 3:  `swapon /dev/sd0s3'

>    2) Could FreeBSD mount Linux partitions , and vice versa ?

Not yet on the former (but soon), not sure at all about the latter.
-- 
						Jordan