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- From: Pedro Miguel Sequeira de Justo Teixeira <pmt@hidro1.ist.utl.pt>
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- Subject: Re: Sharing swap between NetBSD and Linux?
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 20:37:39 -0700
- Organization: I.S.T.
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- Mika Kortelainen wrote:
- >
- > As the subject says, is it possible to (easily) share swap partition
- > between NetBSD and Linux? I'd like to install (and use) Linux, too,
- > but if it needs an own swap I have to reconsider it...
- >
- > I think that it can be done manually by changing the parameters
- > in HDToolBox for the system I'm going to boot but is that all?
- > Perhaps there is some information stored on that swap partition which
- > needs to be initialized (filesystem or such)? Probably this can
- > be solved by going first into single-user mode and making needed
- > preparations but somehow this starts to feel a bit difficult...
-
- I don't know if NetBSD uses the same swap signature
- as Linux. Anyway - worst case analisys - you can always add
- the 'mkswap' command to the startup (rc) files on both systems.
- This comand initialises the swap partition.
-
-
- > As a second question: can Linux use Berkeley FFS? That would make
- > it easier to share files (eg. some large archives which I don't need
- > on both systems all the time)... probably Linux can also use ADOS
- > filesystem so I could put an ADOS partition for that purpose, if
- > needed.
- >
-
- Linux/m68k can access ext2, minix, msdos and affs partitions
- (affs=Amiga Fast File System) but cannot write to affs currently.
- The best way to share files between BSD and Linux is to use
- minix.
-
-
- Pedro Miguel Teixeira
-