[Gllug] Multiple Distro's, one swap partition?

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Mon Mar 8 13:55:37 UTC 2004


And verily, didst FORSTER, David announce to the hordes:
> I'm going to persevere with it, but in the meantime I'd like to get
> something simple like Mandrake, or maybe a knoppix hdinstall, up and running
> on another partition... I was wondering whether I could save a little space
> by using the same swap partition for both Distro's? Anyone tried that
> before?

Yes, all the time.
And while you're at it, you might as well have them share the /home
partition as well... nice added convenience there, all your files available
no matter which you switch to.
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