[Gllug] Shared swap for 2 Linux partitions?

[Simon A. Boggis,,,]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 01:18:56AM +0100, Garry Heaton wrote:
> I'm about to load Red Hat 9 and Debian Sarge onto a disk which already has
> Win98 and Win2000 installed on 2 partitions. Can I assume that one Linux
> swap partition will suffice for both installations?

There are two versions of swap the old (version 0) and the new (version 1),
(see man 8 mkswap) but all modern-ish distributions on x86 will be using
the new version AFAIK.

So the short answer is yes, you should be able to happily share a common
swap partition between those two distributions, and you should be able to
do so between most distros.

Simon


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