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Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems



* D-Man (dsh8290@rit.edu) [010709 15:42]:
> I don't know how to tell init where to find the swap.  Perhaps
> /etc/inittab tells?

init doesn't swap anything; it's the kernel. You can activate a swap
partition by doing something like 

# swapon /dev/hdb2

To make the change permanent, add a line to your /etc/fstab:

/dev/hdb2	none	swap	sw		0 0


Happy Hacking!

Vineet

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