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Old Jan 1st, 2006, 8:54 AM   #1
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Sharing a swap partition between Linux installations
Is this possible? E.g. can I have Slackware on one partition, Suse on another, and a third partition which each uses as a swap when it's running?
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Old Jan 1st, 2006, 9:01 AM   #2
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Old Jan 1st, 2006, 9:15 AM   #3
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Thanks. Will try it then...
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Old Jan 1st, 2006, 9:25 AM   #4
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the swap doesn't even have to be on the same drive. I've had cases where a distro on hda and hdb where sharing the swap oh hda. Although maybe that was possible cuz there was a swap for the distro on hdb on hdb cuz at the time i didn't know they could share the swap (Both distros used both swaps)
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Old Jan 1st, 2006, 10:30 AM   #5
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the swap doesn't even have to be on the same drive. I've had cases where a distro on hda and hdb where sharing the swap oh hda. Although maybe that was possible cuz there was a swap for the distro on hdb on hdb cuz at the time i didn't know they could share the swap (Both distros used both swaps)
It doesn't matter, as long as the OS knows where the swap partition is then it would be used for multiple distros, a place for windows temp files over a network, whatever.. The actual idea behind UNIX was that becuase you can specify the mount point for drives, that each "main" directory would have it's own physical drive (or at least it's own parition). /var/, /etc/, /usr/, and so fourth would all have seperate disks.
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It is absolutly possible. Thats how you dual-boot but then you have to set up the boot loader, E.G. GRUB.
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Swap space has nothing to do with the boot loader...
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Swap space has nothing to do with the boot loader...
I was talking about having 2 different distros on the same drive...

I have Windows, Fedora, then a swap partition on the same drive as well.
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Old Jan 2nd, 2006, 5:42 AM   #9
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the swap doesn't even have to be on the same drive. I've had cases where a distro on hda and hdb where sharing the swap oh hda. Although maybe that was possible cuz there was a swap for the distro on hdb on hdb cuz at the time i didn't know they could share the swap (Both distros used both swaps)
It is even recommended to put the swap on the other disk, because your pc will run faster: it doesn't have to be on two places on the disk at one time .
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it doesn't have to be on two places on the disk at one time .
Stupid laws of physics.

Anyway, since only one is running at a time, no problem
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