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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!ncar!newshost.lanl.gov!retro!hlu From: hlu@retro.lanl.gov (Henry Lu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux and FreeBSD swap share? Date: 9 Oct 1996 21:28:45 GMT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 27 Message-ID: <53h5ed$nvc@newshost.lanl.gov> References: <51rlp5$k5k@www.uno.edu> <R.3244BD69.2781E494@freebsd.org> <52jomt$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: retro.lanl.gov X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: : > As Hannu has already pointed out, this is easy to do from Linux. To : > share a Linux swap device from FreeBSD is similarly easy - simply do a : > swapon using the "slice" number of the partition corresponding to the : > Linux swap partition. : No, it needs to get a BSD disklabel (with a `b' partition) before. : However, i've once proven that this can be done from inside the : /etc/rc scripts. : The shared version using Linux' UFS support, or a `vn' device has : certainly more merit. : -- : cheers, J"org : joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE : Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) Could You please post your solution here. I missed the previous post. Another suggestion : this can be a interesting HOWTO. Henry H Lu. honglu@rt66.com