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- From: goodwinm@teleport.com (Michael Goodwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Sharing swap between NetBSD and Linux?
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 00:10:51 -0700
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Message-ID: <4kvh5r$ii5@linda.teleport.com>
- References: <4ktont$m3n@peippo.cs.tut.fi>
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- In article <4ktont$m3n@peippo.cs.tut.fi>,
- Mika Kortelainen <k125374@korppi.cs.tut.fi> 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...
-
- Sure. I use linux, but I installed netbsd to check it out, and used the
- same swap partition.
-
- >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...
-
- You don't need to play with hdtoolbox at all for linux swap. I run
- mkswap in /etc/rc right before swapon.
-
- >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 supports ADOS partitions, but read-only for now.
-
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