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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!not-for-mail From: Joseph Mack <mack@appliedreasoning.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Sharing swap between FreeBSD and Linux, not enough partitions Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 11:56:45 -0400 Organization: Applied Reasoning Systems Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3392ED3D.E47@appliedreasoning.com> Reply-To: mack@appliedreasoning.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.206.247.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42063 I have a spare partition on my Linux disk on which I would like to put FreeBSD. Linux has 3 partitions (/, /usr and swap) and only allows 4 partitions. FreeBSD needs 2 partitions (/ and swap). Is there any easy way of using the Linux swap partition for FreeBSD when I boot FreeBSD (besides manually changing the partition type with fdisk before I reboot). Is there any other way around the partition problem? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack, SysAdmin, Applied Reasoning Systems, Java Developers Raleigh, NC, USA. ph (919)-781-7997 (voice), (919)-781-4414 (FAX) mailto:mack@appliedreasoning.com http://www.appliedreasoning.com