Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?
Subject: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?
Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 11:46:01PM -0700
In reply to:Francis J. Bruening
Quoting Francis J. Bruening(francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com):
> However, when I try to boot into Debian, (my last boot up was from SuSE) I
> get the msg
>
> Invalid swap signature
>
> And my swap partition isn't mounted.
>
> What do I need to do to be able to share the same swap partition between the
> 2 systems?
I use the same swap partition on Slackware, Debian 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2.
All you have to do is be sure that the entry for the swap partition is
the same in /etc/fstab in all of them.
HTH, YMMV, HAND
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