[Lilux-help] share a swap partition

[Yves Glodt]

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On Saturday 31 July 2004 10:37, Patrick Useldinger wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi,

> can a swap partition be shared among several Linux installation (all
> on the same computer - so only one of them running at the same time)?

I did that frenquently, and it worked perfectly. Another little detail
that just works nicely in Linux, and would require dirty tricky (if it
would work at all) in windoze... ;-)

> Are the any restrictions (same kernel level, distro, anything else)?

I for myself only used it with various 2.4 kernels, distro should not
matter. I think you should be able to share it between 2.4 and 2.6
systems... try it ;-)

regards,
Yves

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