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Distribution: Ubunto and slowly switching to debian
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swap?
hi i have used several distros of linux and have been dual booting with windows and linux on my PCs for about a year now, but i have never had more then one distro on a single machine at a time!
what a was wundering is if i have 2 or more distro's on the same PC can they all use the same swap partition or do they each need their own swap partition?
one swap partition should be fine, swap can be used for things like hibernation. That would obviously cause problem as the image in swap would be that of the distro you were logged in as.
Different (linux) distro's can use the same swap partition. I've got 6 "distro's" on my laptop, all use /dev/hda1 for swap.
I've read somewhere that it is possible to use windows swapfile under linux, but never tried that or can confirm that that works (although we are talking about a file, not a dedicated swappartition).
Distribution: Ubunto and slowly switching to debian
Posts: 308
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thanks for the info. i thought you would be able to use the same swap partition for all the distro's on my machine but i thought i would make sure befor i put both slack and suse 64bit on the same machine
Swap is disk space that's in fact not organized in a filesystem (liek your normal Linux partition), it doesn't have a structure. It means you can overwrite it, because it has no data that will be used after reboot.
i would also like to add that swap space cant be used by two different operating systems at the same time, because well you cant boot into two different linux flavours at the same time so you can use the same swap space because its awesome like that
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