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Re: Sharing swap with Solaris?



> This machine has 128 MB RAM, and currently no swap under Linux.
> Could I just put /dev/hda2 as swap in my Debian /etc/fstab and swapon
> without getting Solaris problems?
You can share the swap space between the two OSs however you will need to 
have mkswap in your startup scripts under Linux because linux looks for 
magic numbers when doing swapon, and solaris overwrites them. You don't 
have to make any changes to solaris.

-Tom



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