[Gllug] DD Ext3 Move

[Tethys]

Christian Smith writes:

>* 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...

Tet
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