Re: Sharing swap with Solaris?

[Pieter-Paul Spiertz <pspiertz@sci.kun.nl>]

Hi,

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Thomas A. Cort wrote:

> > 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.

Just wanted to let know that I have had no need to run mkswap twice. Yet.
Solaris 9 has been writing to the swap in the meantime, though.

Thanks,
Pieter-Paul