31 Jul
2004
31 Jul
'04
8:37 a.m.
Hi all,
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)?
Are the any restrictions (same kernel level, distro, anything else)?
-pu
31 Jul
31 Jul
8:46 a.m.
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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
-pu
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2:39 p.m.
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
-pu
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1 Aug
1 Aug
7:06 a.m.
Mike Pressel wrote:
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.
You are all right. There should be no problem. Even if it would be a
problem, you can always place a mkswap in your boot scripts and
initialize the swap partition before makeing a swapon.
Greetings, Patrick Kaell
2 Aug
2 Aug
12:58 p.m.
New subject: broken? (was Re: share a swap partition)
Which one is broken ? :-))
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 16:39, Mike Pressel wrote:
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
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