[Lilux-help] share a swap partition

[Mike Pressel]

I have 3 different installations on my system (production, test, and 
broken...).  All are using the same swap partition.  I have kernels 2.4.20, 
2.4.24 and 2.6.6 (I think that's right).  

But, at least in theory, the swap partition doesn't care about the Kernel that 
you are using.  Or rather the kernel doesn't care about the other kernels 
that may have used the swap partition.  Think of it as volatile memory.

Mike

On Saturday 31 July 2004 10:46, Yves Glodt wrote:
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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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