[Gllug] Shared swap for 2 Linux partitions?

[Tethys]

Andrew Halliwell writes:

>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.

In theory, yes, although in practice, some distributions may choose
to use it for writing crash dump data. Most have shied away from this,
after the idea was shunned on LKML, but it's not something you can
absolutely guarantee. SCO Unix does this, for example.

In this case, Red Hat and Debian don't (to the best of my knowledge),
so you should be OK.

Tet


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