[Gllug] Shared swap for 2 Linux partitions?

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Garry Heaton announce to the hordes:
> 
> 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?

Yes. Swap is only used for...well, swap after all, so the contents of swap
at reboot into another distribution are irrelevant. 

Think of it as a blank slate that gets filled and overwritten during system
time and wiped at reboot/shutdown.


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