Multi booting swap partition question
 

I am currently dual booting Win98 and Vector Linux on an old PII 450 box. I have enough extra HD space and would like to add another distro (Slack or Debian) to the mix and tri-boot. My question is, can the new linux installation share the existing swap partition with Vector, or do I need to create an additional swap partition to be used just by the new distro?

"I am currently dual booting Win98 and Vector Linux on an old PII 450 box. I have enough extra HD space and would like to add another distro (Slack or Debian) to the mix and tri-boot. My question is, can the new linux installation share the existing swap partition with Vector, or do I need to create an additional swap partition to be used just by the new distro?"

Any new distribution can share your existing swap space.

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Steve Stites

As jailbait says, yes it can use the same /swap. Last time I had more than 2 OS's installed I had it set up so that it shared not only the /swap but the /home partition as well (that's if you use a seperate /home as I do).

It's a little more complicated if you wanted to be able to access each of the distros from the other one, but not impossible.

I have about 30 Linux sharing one swap.

Only the first one asked "which one is swap?". Most of the others don't even have the courtesy of telling me that they are sharing it.

Modern distros, Slax, Mepis, Koppix etc) automatically mount every partition for you to access but mount it manually takes little effort.