Quck partition question

[ethereal]

Can two linux distro's share the same swap file. They'll each have their own root partition. Specificly, the two distro's are slackware 7.1 and redhat 7.

If this works, I plan on trying freebsd later. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[demian]

Originally posted by ethereal:
Can two linux distro's share the same swap file. They'll each have their own root partition. Specificly, the two distro's are slackware 7.1 and redhat 7.


If this works, I plan on trying freebsd later. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif
No problem at all!!

However, sharing swap with BSD is another story... Linux and BSD use different swap signatures so that you need to include mkswap into your startup scipts to initiallize swap with each boot. There's a good howto on Linux+BSD issues.