[Gllug] DD Ext3 Move

[Christian Smith]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Tethys wrote:

>
>Christian Smith writes:
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>>* Why, of why, does Linux require mkswap? Anyone know? It'd be really nice
>>to be able to share swap space with another OS, but mkswap requires you to
>>have a custom boot step to enable it. BSDs just use a raw partition.
>
>Err... you can share swap with other OSes quite easily (and indeed,
>I've done so in the past). What's the problem? By "custom boot step",
>all you mean is running mkswap on the device before calling swapon.
>I don't see the difficulty in that...


Not difficult, just unnecessary, an extra step that you shouldn't need.

Hell, if the partition has to be prepared, why can't swapon do it? Hmmm.


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>Tet
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